The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Phil Shaffer
Phil Shaffer, an Apollo Flight Director and Assistant Chief of the NASA Houston Flight Dynamics Branch, was yet another extraordinary NASA veteran.
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The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Apollo 13 (Part 1: The Explosion)
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster demonstrated the hazard of reentering the atmosphere with a damaged heat shield. During my support of Apollo 13, that was the goblin hiding under my bed.
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Flying The Command Module
I always wanted to pilot a spaceship. During Program Apollo, I actually got to! (sort of).
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: The Command Module Training Simulator
The Apollo astronauts had more than a dozen really cool simulators to train them for a flight to the Moon. I had to learn how to fly one.
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Engineer’s Toolkit
To explain to a generation born after PlayStation how we simulated Apollo reentries in 1968, using Stone Age implements and dragging our knuckles, I’ll need to go into a little detail.
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