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…From the information they gathered on the existing technical problems, Disher and Tischler concluded that prospects were only one in ten that Apollo would land on the moon before the end of the decade….
The “big dish” at Canberra Australia
11/16/63 Blkhouse 37, NASA new Manned Space Flight chief George Mueller briefed. JFK there 6 days before his death
Removing LM from S=IVB stage
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“The contractor role in Houston was not very firm. Frankly, they didn’t want us. There were two things against us down there. Number one, it was a Headquarters contract, and it was decreed that the Space Centers shall use GE for certain things; and number two they considered us (meaning GE) to be Headquarters spies.” Edward S. Miller of General Electric.
GE Employees Monitor Activities of a Spacecraft Test
Comparison of Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles Configurations
Apollo Tracking Network
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During 1962, NASA faced three major tasks: first the mode selection and its defense (covered in episodes 106-109), second keeping North American moving on the command and service modules (covered in episode 110) and third finding a contractor to develop the separate landing vehicle required by that approach. Which we will cover today in episode 111.
One-eighth scale Lunar Module shown by Grumman
Bell Aerospace Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
Saturn SA-3 Launch
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The Apollo contract specified a shirt-sleeve environment. For this reason, North American was told not to include in its design a hatch that opened by explosives, like Mercury’s. An accidentally blown hatch in space would cause an instant vacuum and certain death for an astronaunt not wearing his pressure suit.
Major parts of the CM Structure
NAA Apollo Team Storms, Paup, and Feltz
Carpenter, Glenn, & Schirra in a full-scale mock up of the CM
The Impact Facility at NAA
Interior of a partial full-scale mockup of CM
Complete Apollo Family
