This recording of a Goddard Simulation at Honeysuckle Creek was found on a reel to reel tape recording given to Mike Dinn by Rosemary Scrivener.
It was evidently recorded by Bernard Scrivener and was on the end a tape which contained Apollo 12 comms. It seems he had recorded Apollo 12 audio over earlier sims audio and this is the last part which was left.
John Saxon writes:
Probably one of the few surviving recordings of an Aircraft Simulation at HSK (or anywhere?).
Actually it was from the second aircraft visit (NASA-421, I expect) and I am still trying to fix a date – but it was well before A-7, before the end of 1967. Bert Forsythe in the M & O chair “on the M & O loop”.
[ Note: According to this list compiled by Bob Burns (PDF file), this was indeed NASA 421 visiting July 2–8, 1967. ]
Mike Dinn writes:
My predecessor Bert Forsyth seems to be conducting the debrief.
When I arrived at HSK I felt that the intercomm position and loop titles were unnecessarily verbose so I simplified them.
“M and O” became “Ops”, “GCC” became “comms” etc.
And in any case “M and O” was quite inappropriate in our context.
The subsequent Goddard visiting sim teams didn’t seem to have problems coping with our changes.
You hear Mike Evenett reporting that the predicts were out by 7 degrees! (Main antenna beamwidth was .33 degrees.) If that had happened on a real spacecraft everybody would have been in deep trouble.
At 9 minutes into the audio, John Saxon explains what was done during the sim to test out everyone’s responses.
Back to Preparing for Apollo. Back to Goddard Sims.
