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Topic: NASA research pilot Lee Person (1932-2012)
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 05-01-2012 09:40 AM
The Hampton Roads, Va. Daily Press reports that Lee H. Person Jr., a well-known research pilot at NASA Langley, has died. He was 79 years old. Person assisted with NASA's moon landing research during the 1960s, flying lunar landing simulators and helped train for space missions.He worked with the Apollo astronaut team before it went on its historic journey, during training at the Lunar Landing Research Facility at NASA Langley. The facility helped prepare astronauts for the final 150 feet of landing on the moon. Person was among the first pilots to test the model lander, making the practice flight some 182 times. "We were working on it to get it to fly right," Person told the Daily Press in a 1994 interview. "The astronauts would come into town and say something like, 'It rides pretty good, but why don't we try something like this?' They had to be comfortable with it. They were going to fly it onto the moon." |
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