Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
“I got a welcome break from S/CAT to support the mission at Kennedy Space Center and took Joan and our three oldest children with me to watch the launch. We arrived a day ahead and checked into the Howard Johnson Motel on the oceanfront at Cocoa Beach.After negotiating the daunting security check-in at the KSC gate, I drove onto the vast semitropical sandspit where NASA’s facilities were located and found the sprawling, three-story Operations and Checkout (O&C) building. At the front of the buil...ding, which faced the road, there were three long, horizontal stripes of windows where the office areas were located; at the rear were the white-sided high-bay areas that housed the spacecraft assembly and test clean rooms, altitude chambers, automatic checkout equipment stations, and simulators. Inside the Grumman office area on the second floor I was greeted by Herb Grossman, our KSC Engineering manager, who showed me around, introducing people if I did not already know them and filling me in on the status of the mission.MoreLess
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