The Telemetry and Control (T&C) building
(also see frames from the film of external
shots and the Verlort
Radar)
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The
Acquisition Area:
The Acquisition team
Seated:
Jack Duperouzel and Jack Walker (partly hidden). Standing:
Jack Moir.
The
Control Room is the far half of the room:
On
the right at the desk is Gus Pugh.
The
Capcom and medical officers are at the far end on the left.
At
the far end on the right is Muchea Comm Tech Gerry O’Connor.
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The
Acquistion Team:
Jack
Moir (standing), Jack Walker (centre – leader of the
Acquistion Team) and Jack Duperouzel at the Acq Aid Console.
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L-R:
Jack Duperouzel, Jack Walker and Jack Moir at the
Acq Aid Console.
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Jack
Duperouzel directs the antennae using the Elevation and Azimuth
controls.
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Gerry
O’Connor is just seen here at the Comm Tech Console.
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Gus
Pugh at the Operations Supervisor’s desk.
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The Command Station Display:
L–R:
Wing Commander Dr Warren Bishop, NASA Flight Surgeon Dr. Ed
Beckman; Senior Flight Controller (i.e. Capcom) Wally Schirra;
the Assistant Capcom, and another NASA team member.
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The
Capcom position for MA-5:
L-R: Two NASA personnel, Wally Schirra, Ed
Beckman,
Warren Bishop.
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Senior
Flight Controller Wally
Schirra and Muchea Station Director Lewis Wainwright
at the Command Station Display.
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Senior
Flight Controller Wally
Schirra and Muchea Station Director Lewis Wainwright
at the Command Station Display.
Note
the diagram of a Mercury Capsule instrument panel for the Capcom to
use when speaking with an astronaut in orbit.
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NASA
Flight Surgeon Dr. Ed Beckman
with
RAAF Flight Surgeon Wing Commander Dr. Warren Bishop at the Aero-medical
console.
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Sanbourne
pen recorders in the Telemetry section.
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Glenis Wilkerson at one of the Teletype machines in the Comms Room.
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The
Comms Room:
Communications
Supervisor Kevyn Westbrook watches as Glenis Wilkerson
types a TTY message.
In
the background, using the typewriter, is Freda Ash.
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The
Telemetry Area:
Decoms
on the left, Receivers on the right.
L-R:
Gordon McDonald (at the PAM decommutator), unknown (at the pair of eight channel thermal strip chart recorders), Rex Hogan (seated), Len Moyle and Solon Mathews.
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Gordon
McDonald watching a CRO in the Telemetry area.
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Gordon
McDonald in the Telemetry area.
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Len
Moyle in Telemetry.
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Solon
Mathews (left) and Len Moyle in the Telemetry area.
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The
Telemetry Area:
This view
shows the Timing Standard console on the left and Decoms and Receivers
beyond it.
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Colin
Macnish at the Timing Standard console in the Telemetry area.
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Colin
Macnish at the Timing console in the Telemetry Area.
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Screenshots selected, colour-corrected (with varying success)
and anotated by Colin Mackellar.
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