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…
Year: 1966
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….
DAP initialization simplification
Ken Cox, Rick Nobles, Charley Parker and I got together to see what could be done about reducing the number of crew displays and inputs associated with the digital auto pilot (DAP). As you recall, the DAP’s require initialization by the crew who specify the spacecraft configuration, choice of RCS quads to be used, dead-band,…
MIT’s digital computers are saturated until the IBM 360 becomes operational
I guess I ought to record the saga of the MIT 360 computer, if only so that it may take it’s proper place in history. It is a little adventure which has been going on in the shadow of the more dramatic crises at MIT and is now rising to the surface in it’s own…
We’ve bit the bullet on GRR
The fact that the 206 LM is the only LM to be powered up when launched presents a requirement for some unique manner for the G&N to detect or at least be informed that liftoff has occurred. In the absence of a hardwire liftoff signal, it had been intended to transmit a guidance reference release…