"Amiable Strangers"
Three distinct personalities, one goal: reach the moon.
- By Michael Klesius
- AirSpaceMag.com, May 21, 2009
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Armstrong examines the rotor on a helicopter two days before the launch of Apollo 11, possibly in preparation for a final training flight. Armstrong has said that helicopters didn’t provide as useful a simulation for the lunar lander as did the more dangerous lunar landing training vehicle (LLTV), from which he ejected 14 months before his lunar mission. But helicopters did allow the astronauts to fly trajectories similar to those they would fly above the moon.
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While the astronauts were deserving heros of the Apollo project your series needs a section on one person in particular, George M. Low. It was he who met the challange of the disastrous fire that killed three astronauts and brought together the science and engineering that made the capsule workable.
George was originally brought from the Cleveland NASA lab to the Office of Manned Space Flight by Abe Silverstine. After the fire he was transferred to Houston to take over the design of the capsule. Without him the Moon landing may never have happened. After the landing and the instigation of the Space lab project he was made Deputy Administrator of NASA. His life story would be worth an article.
Posted by Robert E. Blue on June 24,2009 | 12:16 PM