11, and what a thing to go back over, thats a big project. The theres many things that stand out, a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life, i mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11, in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. The and moving in there, this was the First Mission where in apollo now, where lonnie, charlesworth and myself, who had been flight deck or thes on gemini, were actually coming back together again. So, you had probably the three most experienced people at the console and it was a question f of, who is going to get to do what . The and lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charleswor
We are honored today to have a group of engineers, heroes, i tried to get her to follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could since 1959. We will have a panel talking about lunar module lending operations today and if you want to know what that is they will tell you about it. As we go around we have the panel here jack knight to the immediate left, bob nance, bill reeves and hal loden, i will have them identify themselves briefly and say a little about what they did and then open it a little for questions and since i didnt introduce myself, my name is john charles and im a scientist here is the center, houston. I would like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight to talk about what you did to apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place in your recognition of that important day. Okay. I was the son of an air force family and we were in various places around the world and i went to Georgia Institute of technology and came directly here to the Space Flight Center and was hi
All didly 14 when you the miracle back in 1969. I tried to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as we could. We have a panel that will talk about lunar module landing operations. The panel here is jack knight, bob nance, hal loden, and bill reeves. Instead of me going on about them i will ask them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did and then open it for questions. My name is john charles. I am the science in fast scientist in residence at space center houston. I would like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight. To talk about what you did here for apollo 11, what brought you here in the first place and your recollection of that important day. Jack i was the son of an air force family. We were in various bases around the world. I went to the Georgia Institute of technology and graduated in 1965. I came directly to the manned space flight center, in particular the apollo systems group. At the time i arrived, apollo had been a program in work, but w
The dad bond movement. Oh. See why this had us thinking about another commercial thats just as crazy. Thats ollie. Were you 12 when you got hired for this . 23. We have all learned by now if a dash cam is rolling its going to catch some pretty crazy stuff. First dash cam footage from russia. This car driving at safe speeds following a safe distance from that car in front. What . What is that . Those are flames. Those were flames. Oh its a person. Oh, yeah. She gets out of the car. The driver is screaming. Shes so terrified. We do see people come to her aid. They get her away from the car. The car they were in with the dash cam, they realize they need to get back back their car up. The reason this car is on fire according to translations from reports, she actually lit something inside her car, possibly a cigarette, and had a gas canister inside her car. Oh, my goodness. It was open . I mean no. Even if it was just venting, any of that little vapor, thats whats explosive, the gas vapor.
Oh. See why this had us thinking about another commercial thats just as crazy. Thats ollie. Were you 12 when you got hired for this . 23. We have all learned by now if a dash cam is rolling its going to catch some pretty crazy stuff. First dash cam footage from russia. This car driving at safe speeds following a safe distance from that car in front. What . What is that . Those are flames. Those were flames. Oh its a person. Oh, yeah. She gets out of the car. The driver is screaming. Shes so terrified. We do see people come to her aid. They get her away from the car. The car they were in with the dash cam, they realize they need to get back back their car up. The reason this car is on fire according to translations from reports, she actually lit something inside her car, possibly a cigarette, and had a gas canister inside her car. Oh, my goodness. It was open . I mean no. Even if it was just venting, any of that little vapor, thats whats explosive, the gas vapor. Not the liquid itself.