Data Priority meetings schedule

October 1, 1967PA/Chief, Apollo Data Priority CoordinationData Priority meetings schedule

1. In order to get a little bit more orderly in our conduct of the Trajectory Control Data Priority business, it's evident that we must schedule meetings on a pre-established, periodic basis. Accordingly, the Ascent and Descent meetings will take place on alternate Tuesday afternoons; Rendezvous meetings will be held of Wednesdays, one mission in the morning and another in the afternoon (right now they will be missions “C” and “D”, respectively) in the same week as Ascent. The so-called Midcourse Phase, name to be changed I hope, will take place on Wednesday mornings in the same week as Descent. All of these meetings will be approximately ½ day long.

2. This sounds like a rather large time absorber because it is. However, there are a number of us who feel that the only way we can get this thing done at all – to say nothing of being on time – is to make a fairly intensive effort for a short time. For example, aside from the Rendezvous business, I anticipate the rest of the mission phases should be pretty well squared away within three or four months and after that they will require much less attention.

3. One more thing regarding the Midcourse Phase—it is proposed that this panel's work be enlarged to encompass all pre-launch targeting associated with the lunar landing mission, all activities in earth orbit, the TLI maneuver, the Midcourse maneuvers, the LOI maneuver and the TEI maneuver. It will not include launch and launch abort monitor- ing. The reason for this is that all those activities listed, aside from TEI, are aligned to the same end objective; that is, braking into a suitable lunar orbit.