On March 7 we had a Data Priority Mission Techniques meeting on lunar reentry. This was the first on this mission phase with contractor participation. Our objective was to understand the current status of the business and to begin pinning down the operational procedures to be used onboard the spacecraft and on the ground. We…
Year: 1968
TRW performance evaluation for Task A-46
I don’t know if other people have the same problem as I do—maybe Task A-46 is unique—but so help me God, I cannot think of anything productive to write in those blank spaces on the performance evaluation form month after month. So, I am sending this form back with a blank overall numerical rating and…
Lunar rendezvous abort summary
A great deal of work has gone on over the years on the subject of lunar abort rendezvous, spearheaded by Morris Jenkins, Ed Lineberry, Buzz Aldrin and others. The results of some of this work have already been documented and more detailed reports are in the works. The primary reason I’m writing this note is…
Eighth and Ninth “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meetings
Most of the March 15 and 22 “C” Mission rendezvous Mission Techniques meetings were devoted to discussion of onboard rendezvous navigation with the sextant. This was brought about by the rather bad experience suffered by the 101 flight crew and a number of the flight controllers on the Kennedy Space Center mission simulator earlier in…
Apollo Spacecraft Software Configuration Control Board notes for the March 19 meeting
We spent another couple of hours talking about the Delta V monitor programs. Two program change requests were considered for Sundance and Luminary. It was concluded that no change would be made to Sundance, but that both changes should be made to Luminary, although, I am not sure if one of them is not in…
Seventh “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
At the seventh “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting on March 25, we spent most of our time discussing activity in the football rendezvous, specifically, under what circumstances and how to abort. It turned out that the same ground rules and techniques probably apply equally well to the pseudo-TPI maneuver halfway through the rendezvous exercise….
Mission techniques for the LM lunar stay go/no go
As a result of several meetings on the subject, I think we have finally pinned down how to handle the go/no go decision to be made immediately after LM landing on the lunar surface. This memorandum is to report the techniques and to solicit your comments….
Lunar Reentry Mission Techniques meeting – March 21
On March 21 a small group of us ???? ??????? the logical flow charts TRW produced based on our ??? Lunar Reentry Mission Techniques meeting a couple of weeks ago. A couple of things came up that I should probably pass around….
Mission “E” Rendezvous Data Priority meetings
This memorandum is to report the meager accomplishments of the Second and Third “E” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meetings of March 18 and April 1, 1968….
Some lunar mission earth orbit phase ground rules
I would like to make sure everyone is aware of some important decisions which were made at Ron Berry’s Midcourse Phase Mission Techniques meeting on April 3. They have to do with operations during the earth parking orbit phase prior to TLI on a lunar mission….