Hoover / Kraft / Philco / Space Task Group / AVRO / Simulation Task Group / /
Country
Canada / Australia / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Man-Made Disaster / Person Travel / /
Facility
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute / Engineering Support Building / NASA’s Langley Research Center / Patrick Air Force Base / Polaris Motel / Houston Control Center / Mercury Control Center / Control Center Training Simulations / Mission Control Center / Langley Research Center / Cape Canaveral Mercury Control Center / /
IndustryTerm
launch communications technical staff / control center systems / launch site / remote site / requirements / voice systems / communications systems / control center communications system / crew training devices / control center backroom hardware / /
NaturalFeature
Banana River / /
Organization
U.S. Air Force / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics / Mercury Control Center / NASA’s Langley Research Center / Polytechnic Institute / Mission Control Center / Houston Control Center / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA Langley Research Center / Air Force / Goddard Space Flight Center / NASA’s LaRC / /
Person
Charles (Chuck) Berry / Robert (Bob) Davidson / Alan B. (Al) Shepard / William (Bill) Sullivan / Riley McCafferty / Thomas Markley / Harold G. Miller June / Stanley Faber / Dick Hoover / Jack Cohen / Peter Segota / Harold G. Miller / John P. Mayer / Robert (Bob) Eddy / Shirley Hunt / John Hodge / Dick Koch / Arnold (Arnie) Aldrich / Thomas (Tom) Williams / Glynn Lunney / Richard (Dick) Koos / Carl Huss / Stan Faber / /
Position
personnel director / simulation supervisor / head / Section Head / lead engineer / head of the requirements group / director of personnel / /
Product
Aurora / Mercury Capsule / /
ProvinceOrState
Texas / Virginia / Aurora / Maryland / Tennessee / Zanzibar / Florida / North Carolina / /
The Early Days of Simulation and Operations The following is an attempt to capture some of my memories of my work at NASA starting July 7, 1959 until I left in August[removed]It is not meant to be a definitive history of