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Welcome to

Apollo Training Team . Com

50th Anniversary Edition

ApolloTrainingTeam.Com

a space history website

Hugh W. McNeese

Supervisor & Team

Leader

The Apollo Training Program was designed to provide an integrated training program for the flight crew, controllers, launch operations, and NASA and contractor engineering personnel.

The same Apollo Engineering Instructors provided the training programs to each group of students. This resulted in total continuity of spacecraft systems information being presented throughout the program. The instructor engineers were among the most knowledgeable personnel on the Apollo Spacecraft systems functions and operation. Their ability to communicate this knowledge to others was second to none. As part of their preparation for subsequent flights, they monitored each flight from launch, Mission

Control Operations, and the actual flights through splashdown and recovery via audio and closed-circuit television.The differences between each spacecraft system, system operations and procedures were tabulated and presented to those personnel assigned to that flight.

There were no gaps in information, no dated information, nor any misinformation presented in this training program.

It should be noted that the F.A.A. requested that they be permitted to use Apollo Training's testing procedures and evaluation in their program. Permission was given of course.

7. Actual hardware used in demonstrations

8."Dry Run" (practice) presentations

Note: Apollo Training introduced the "dry run" to the entire Apollo program. Others gradually adopted it until it became a common practice

Welcome to Our Site !

Webmaster note:

This is a private and independent website, and as such, was prepared with the consent of participating team members only who provided personal data to proudly support Internet publication of their participation in the Apollo Missions

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To accomplish this our team overcame many obstacles to get the job done and were the recipients of many awards and recognition for our performance. However, all recognition, including kudos and awards for the success of our efforts are shared with all who supported us in this task, for without them... it would not have been possible.

We hope you will enjoy a few things we have selected from our files for this website depicting our contributions to the Space Race to the Moon.

John Winton

Lead Instructor

webmaster

With the assistance of many engineering, support and administrative functions within our company, the NASA, the military, and many educational and associate contractor organizations, our guys functioned to develop a systems approach to training, enabling us to prepare and present an accelerated training program as space systems were being designed and developed. It was a TOTAL team effort !

Those honored in this site for their contributions in placing the first man on the moon now realize how fortunate we were as Americans during the decades of the nineteen sixties and seventies in living in a country undivided because of political or other differences which today, seemingly appear to be tearing away at threads that bind us as a Democracy and a nation.

Perhaps our website will stand as an example, like Neil's famous footprint on the Moon, of what we can do for our country when undivided and working together in a society to create and innovate for the benefit of our nation and all mankind.

Sadly, only three of our original participating team members are with us for the 50th anniversary. We are planning for this site to remain published with web.com as one of many Space History publications after we join the rest of our team.

Our Family Supporters

Clearly, there are sacrifices to be made in any worthwhile achievement, especially at the family level when burdens are placed on marriages while one parent may be absent for periods of time to move about the country as required to share his or her expertise with others working in the industry. Our training team members having families flew thousands of miles to different locations across country from our home base in Southern California in the process of sharing our technical knowledge.

In view of these sacrifices made by those wives or husbands who often found themselves playing both parental roles during our travels, we recognize them, along with our children, as major contributors to the success of this program .

Fifty Years Forward

Looking Back