Photos of the Goddard Sims teams
Miscellaneous photos of the Sim teams.
Del Golightly from Bendix in the Super Constellation NASA 421 one of the aircraft telemetry experts sent out in the Goddard Sim team to give us a hard time on the ground. |
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taken at Canberra airport by Hamish Lindsay. |
A view of the electronic consoles in NASA 421. |
NASA 421 at Perth, Western Australia, prior to Apollo 16. |
Ian Grant, John Saxon and Mike Dinn at the Honeysuckle Ops console with a member of the Goddard Simulation team at right. |
Members of the Goddard Sim team at the Honeysuckle Ops console on Tuesday 15 June 1971 during an Apollo 15 sim with |
Of the simulations, John Saxon writes,
As Mike implies I reckon we were pretty well organised. Without taking a foot off the press-to-talk switch one could risk a slipped disk and grab any of the required documentation, another log sheet or one of several other forms (we used to incorrectly call them pro-formas), or a TTY message from one of the many clip boards. While simultaneously drinking a cuppa, doing a crossword, etc. etc. {:-))
Another photo of the same sim for Apollo 15 printed in Goddard News. Left to right: Evan Gull, Don Loughhead (standing in background), Mike Evenett at console, Ian Grant on telephone, and Len Litherland on edge of picture. |
It is busy in the HSK Simulation Room as the station prepares for the Apollo 16 mission. From left Honeysuckle Deputy Director Ian Grant, Anderson and Kermit Blaney (leader) from the Goddard sim team, and from the back Mike Evenett, Tony Gerada, Phil Lewin, and Neil Sandford from HSK. Our Sim console was built from scraps and leftovers but, with ingenuity, worked effectively. See Mike Dinns comments on it. Photo and caption: Hamish Lindsay. See also Neil Sandford’s information on the Simulation system at HSK. |
Here’s another photo in the Honeysuckle Simulation Room prior to Apollo 16. Neil Sandford is closest to camera, sitting at the console. Mike Evenett is at the far end. Sim team leader Kermit Blainey is standing behind him. (Can anyone identify the gentleman at left? Hamish Lindsay had him labelled as ‘Anderson’ in the photo above.) |
The front page of Goddard News, May 1 1967. Scan: Bruce Withey. |
Bob Burns from the Sim team with the Dallas-Forth Worth Turnpike sign at Carnarvon, April 1972. Photo: Bob Burns. |