Quite a number of things have been going on with regard to AS-206 mission plans, spacecraft configuration, and the LGC computer program development. I would like to take a couple of minutes here to let you know about the latest developments in the latter….
Month: November 1966
AGC program for AS-501/502 – Final status report
The attached memorandum lists all of the program changes required to the AS-202 program to fly AS-501 and AS-502. As you can see, there are quite a few, although most are quite simple. For example, some of these changes are merely corrections to bugs that were known to be in the AS-202 program when we…
AGC program status for AS-278
I guess enough things have happened affecting the status of the programs for the AS-278 mission that I ought to issue another status report. According to MIT, work is progressing along basically on schedule. The major effort is currently in Ed Copps’ area where coding of the program is going on which should be completed…
Ground rules for MIT man loading for AGC programming
This is really for my own records, but in case you are interested, we presented the following ground rules to MIT with Bill Kelly’s (ASPO’s MIT Contractual Officer) concurrence. These ground rules were to cover the work they are doing in revising their man loading estimates for contract negotiations which are coming um in the…
Small program change needed in the AS-501/502 AGC program
In the course of development of the AS-206 computer program at MIT, a coding error was discovered which was immediately recognized as being common to the AS-204 and AS-501/502 programs. It is a scaling error, if you know what that means, which imposes the operational constraint of not operating one of the integration programs (i.e.,…
LGC program status for AS-206
We spent a lot of time at MIT last week wrestling with the AS-206 problem. Although in a previous note I expressed some optimism regarding possibility of recovering some of the one month slip MIT draped on us, they have convinced me now that there is really not much chance. As a result we pretty…
More interesting things about our work with MIT
I always start out these MIT newsletters with the hope they will be short enough that you’ll be willing to read ’em. A couple of things came up at our Program Development Plan review on November 16 there that I thought I would pass on….