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Buffering the outside world from the technical decisions these guys had to make. Part, peoplein like kraft had the same experiences you had, wouldnt you say as a formal as a former flight director he knew . Washristopher columbus entirely appropriate for this guy. Pioneer in Mission Control. He launched each one of the mercury missions. But he was the mentor, teacher and tutor for this young generation who became known as Mission Controllers. He set the mold for everything that would be done the...

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three people to look around the room and anybody that they didnt think they needed for the next few hours to send them back to their consoles and get them out of there sew so we could focus on a smaller team. we did a blackboard exercise that quickly listed the majority of the issues that had to be worked and who would work them. john aaron who was the power guy came and said, gene, one of the things we got to do is we got to get powered down immediately. i said, john, ill work on this...

my gut feeling -- and thats all i got -- says dont use the main engine and dont jettison the lunar module. thats all i got is a gut feeling. its based -- i dont know -- in the flight control business, the flight director business, you develop some street smarts, and i think every controller has felt this at some time or another and i talk briefly to lenny and hes got this same feeling. meantime my trajectory people are scared out of their wits that were going to execute this abort, dir...

orange telemetry records were scattered all over. one of the very difficult problems that we faced was that there was no instantaneous data retrieval in those days. it was literally hours from the time we would request a print-out of the telemetry data until we would see them. so the only records that we had to work with were the ones that were in the recorders themselves and a few of the hard copies we could take and make a copy of the television display, a controller was looking at. ...