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 thereafter and in particular, he set the and for the flight director the flight director being able to take any action necessary for crew safety and mission success. He had done that in the beauty of the thing was even though he physically had left the console, wase he knew his job now to give them the confidence to make the technical decisions and he was going to broker whatever political fallout might occur. A spectacular man. He was the interface between the top level and politics. I found that
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three people to look around the room and anybody that they didn t 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, i ll work on this but we got to figure out new ways to navigate because we can expect the navigation system to continue drifting and we have to find some way to re-align it so we gave phil shaffer the responsibility to come up with ways to use the i m sort of getting ahead of myself. one of the things that was giving us a problem was that this explosion that occurred had set a cloud of debris around the spacecraft and frozen particles of oxygen. and we normally navigate with stars and we couldn t see stars a
my gut feeling and that s all i got says don t use the main engine and don t jettison the lunar module. that s all i got is a gut feeling. it s based i don t 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 he s got this same feeling. meantime my trajectory people are scared out of their wits that we re going to execute this abort, direct abort, because it s very late in the trajectory to make this kind of a computation and swinging this mission around the front side of the moon is going to be very risky job. in the meantime, my systems guys want to get back home as soon as they can because they know they re in deep trouble. so it s now decision time and with nothing more than the gut feeling make the decision to swing the mission around, around the moon rather than come around front. so this then puts us on the trajector
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