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Topic: Duke, Roosa, Cooper Apollo 1 connection?
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liftoff1
Member Posts: 235
From: Cumberland, Wisconsin
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 03-18-2019 01:32 PM
   
I recently obtained several paper items which seem to connect Charlie Duke, Stuart Roosa, and Gordon Cooper to some sort of committee. First item is a photocopy of a page titled "Meeting at KSC Headquarters, October 6, 1967. The sheet lists fourteen attendants including the aforementioned astronauts as well as other NASA dignitaries such as G.F. Wendt, P.E. Burke, L.G. Miller, and some TWA personnel as well as J.A. Bauer of Boeing. The second sheet is a photocopy of an illustration of the loading platform and Command Module. Text includes "Use Fire Retardant Paint on Plywood Mockup" and several areas of the illustrated area are circled. This sheet was originally signed by the three astronauts prior to being photocopied. The third sheet is a piece of official NASA stationery with a "John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA" letterhead that is genuinely signed by Duke, Roosa, and Cooper. I am trying to find how all of this ties together but can't find anything on Google. Were these three astronauts part of one of the committees investigating the Apollo 1 fire or perhaps part of a team working on improvements of the Saturn FvV capsule?  
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Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1255
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-18-2019 06:31 PM
Charlie Duke was tasked to a committee whose job it was to rewrite safety procedures for the Apollo command module. He and Jack Swigert's papers are in the archives at the Kansas Cosmosphere. |
Skylon
Member Posts: 274
From:
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 03-18-2019 07:16 PM
I am not sure if this is relevant to this specific document, but Stu Roosa was the blockhouse Capcom when the fire occurred. Jack Swigert was on Apollo 7's support crew and gained that position after the death of Ed Givens, which had occurred before this meeting took place (Apollo 7 kept Apollo 1's support crew of Givens, Ron Evans and Bill Pogue). |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-19-2019 03:37 AM
Cooper, Roosa and Duke were the three astronaut test subjects for the vibration testing of Apollo command module couches at the Manned Spacecraft Center's vibration and acoustic test facility, Building 49, in April 1968. Objective was to determine the reaction of astronauts to the severe vertical oscillations recorded on Apollo-6.Roosa and Duke were also involved in emergency escape testing at Pad 39. So were Jim Ragusa and Chuck Billings. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 03-19-2019 08:12 AM
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Originally posted by Skylon:
Jack Swigert was on Apollo 7's support crew...
Actually, Swigert was one of the original Apollo 1 support crew members; Gus Grissom mentions "Evans, Givens and Swigert" as the newly created support crew in the audio of a press conference held in December 1966. Pogue replaced Givens the following June. |
dtemple
Member Posts: 729
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-20-2019 02:29 PM
I noticed the old lettered central office exchange for the Manned Spacecraft Center, HU (meaning the 48 exchange). If you have seen old TV show reruns then you have very likely heard phone numbers provided with a name like Fairmont, Lakewood, etc. Those phone numbers would have been written as FAx-xxxx, LAx-xxxx, and so on. The old phone number system for MSC and the surrounding area would have been given as HUbbard, HUdson, HUnter, HUntley, or HUxley. Does anyone know which one of these was used for HU3-2411, the phone number many of our astronaut heroes would have had on their business card? In case anyone is curious about these old exchanges names, here is a detailed explanation. | |
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