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May 26, 1970
HOUSTON_ TEXAS--Astronaut Donn F. Eisele will leave the Manned
Spacecraft Center in mid-June to become Technical Assistant (Manned
Flight) at NASA's Langley Research Center_ F_mpton_ Virginia.
Eisele_ 397 _ill be assigned to the Space Systems Research Division
as a consultant and advisor on manned systems in which the Langley center
is conducting studies. They include the Space Shuttle and Space Station
Programs_ Skylab experiments_ and life support research.
A lieutenant colonel_ Eisele will remain in the Air Force. "I
have served on prime and backup crews of four different spaceflight
assignments. Now that manned flights have been stretched out and
considering that there are numerous qualified astronauts who have not
yet flow_ I believe ih is time for me to move on," Eisele said.
"I have accepted this new assignment because it will afford an
opportunity to broaden the scope of my participation in spaceflight
activities and thereby enhance my effectiveness in the total space
effort_" he said.
Eisele has been a NASA astronaut since October 1963. He was the
co_and module pilot for the il-day Apollo 7 mission in October, 1968.
Apollo 7 was the first manned flight test of the Apollo command and
service modules. With Spacecraft Commander Walter M. Schirra_ Jr._
and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham, Eisele performed transposition
and docking and lunar orbit rendezvous exercises with the S-IVB stage of
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