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What About the SR-71----How Did <strong>The</strong>y Do It? • Urgent National Need • Visionary Government and Industry • Willingness to Take Risks • Tolerance for Failure • Minimum People and Paperwork • Individual Responsibility • Cradle to Grave Ownership of Design Skunk Works, Ben Rich, 1994 • Started Work 1959 • Mach 3, 90,000 ft. alt 52
Looking Back On <strong>Apollo</strong> • National goal & priority • Excellent, experienced management & technical • Work ethic • Attention to detail • Block 2 was a God-send, Block 2HW was not • Lots of testing including pre-qual • Always driven by something on pad • Need tolerance for failure • Wish we would have had Kevlar • Intra-sys effects • Worry a lot 53
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Page 4 and 5: Manned Spaceflight Timeline • 186
Page 6 and 7: Space Race Progression • 57-58 In
Page 8 and 9: Apollo VAB-Launch Complex 8
Page 10 and 11: Apollo Stack 10
Page 12 and 13: CM/Boilerplate Dimensions 12
Page 14 and 15: Early Apollo ELS Architecture 14
Page 16 and 17: Normal Landing Sequence 16
Page 18 and 19: ELS Installation 18
Page 20 and 21: +Z Bay 20
Page 22 and 23: +Y Bay 22
Page 24 and 25: Steel Cable Risers 24
Page 27 and 28: ELS Schematic 27
Page 29 and 30: Mode Percent Failed Electrical Mech
Page 31 and 32: Apollo Docking System 31
Page 33 and 34: Apollo Soyuz Test Project 33
Page 35: Apollo CM Uprighting System 35
Page 39 and 40: Instrumented Bomb Test Vehicle 39
Page 41 and 42: Boilerplate rigged for drop. Note e
Page 43 and 44: Boilerplate Drop Test 43
Page 45 and 46: • Chutes are different Chutes Are
Page 47 and 48: • Cluster Non-Uniformity - 3 Main
Page 49 and 50: • Apollo 15 Big Problems Within E
Page 51: What Makes Programs Successful? •

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