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"14 Employees Graduated With First UAH Class."
Clipping from the Marshall Star, May 29, 1968, vol. 8, no. 36. -
"A Comparison of an MIT Explicit Guidance Principle with MSFC Iterative Guidance."
From the summary: "Both [guidance] schemes steer toward a specified end point. The MIT scheme uses thrust to cancel out the effective gravity, a nonlinear term, which may be inefficient in certain cases. The MSFC scheme is more closely connected with calculus of variations and optimization theory in a reasonable degree of approximation." -
"Apollo Saturn LIEF Operations Plan."
This paper identifies the support functions performed by MSFC through the Launch Information Exchange Facility (LIEF) during the Apollo Saturn Mission Operations and other facilities required to carry out these functions. It also identifies mission specific documents required for operation. Note that page 20 is missing. -
"APOLLO TELESCOPE MOUNT SEQUENTIAL FLOW PLAN."
This is a manual that describes the handling and use of the Apollo Telescope Mount prior to launch. -
"Final Crew System Corollary Experiment Input to the Skylab Final Mission Evaluation Report."
This report describes the experiments onboard Skylab, what the data the experiments gather indicates, and the equipment that the experiments utilize. This includes the spider experiment. -
"General Formulation of the Iterative Guidance Mode."
From the abstract: "This report discusses the iterative guidance mode and its application to three-dimensional upper stage vacuum flight. It is an inertial or closed system mode in that the only inputs required after liftoff are available from the onboard navigation system. That is, the iterative scheme computes steering commands as a function of the state and of the vehicle - velocity, position, longitudinal acceleration, and gravitational acceleration - and the desired cutoff conditions. The guidance commands are updated each guidance cycle, using the updated state of the vehicle. The iterative guidance scheme is a path adaptive guidance scheme in that it will retain its optimization properties under all expected types and magnitudes of vehicle perturbations without any loss in accuracy at liftoff." -
"History of MSFC Reliability Philosophy."
Paper given to North East Chapter , Mississippi Society of Professional Engineers. Essay discussing the history of the MSFC Reliability Philosophy. -
"Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce honors Dr. William R. Lucas."
From a dinner held in honor of the retirement of MSFC director William R. Lucas in 1986. It includes a biographical sketch and photographs of Lucas. -
"Living in Huntsville and Madison County: Home of George C. Marshall Space Flight Center."
This pamphlet includes a memo to "Key MSFC Employees" from M. Keith Wible, Chief of the Manpower Utilization and Administration Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.