"Of Course We're Proud"
This historical site is dedicated to
our children and our grandchildren, & all those of men and women everywhere who came together as a team of
Americans to meet the challenge of space travel, and to demonstrate
success by transporting man thousands of miles into space, landing
him on the surface of the moon, and returning him safely to
earth. This was our national goal, as declared by President John F. Kennedy,
and vowing that the total team would accomplish this within a
decade.
The
Apollo Customer Training and Support Documentation
Department of North
American Rockwell
were participants in this effort and very proud to have played a
role in this
achievement. This site was published by retired members
as an independent effort, and without either the consent or
endorsement of the NASA or the Company for which they were
employed.
With
the assistance of engineering, support and administrative functions
within our company, the military, and many other 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.
Engineering Instructors from many aerospace organizations came together
to form our group, and to participate with the total Apollo
program team in the "space race to the moon" of
the 1960's. Our instructor-engineers worked initially from only
design specifications and mission objectives to prepare
and present spacecraft subsystems courses and Apollo
mission familiarization briefings for a wide and diverse student
population.
Our
team overcame many obstacles to get the job done, and were
the recipients of many awards and recognition from both our company and
customer 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.
Our
target student population included:
NASA
Astronauts, Flight
Controllers, Launch
Operations personnel, USSR
Cosmonauts, NASA engineering
& administrative personnel, contractor
& sub-contractor engineering & technical personnel.
Site Map
The following
links will navigate you through other information we wish to
share regarding our training activities to support
the Apollo Program:
| meet
the team |
cadre |
team
leader | awards
| manuals
|
| links | admin
| approach
| mission
patches | Apollo-Soyuz
|
|lunar
mission summary | | good
times | photo
Album |
A special
slideshow to celebrate the 40th Anniversary.
This
slideshow ( a 2.15MB download )depicts artist
conceptual drawings of the Lunar Mission as they were used in Apollo Familiarization briefings long before the actual July 1969
Apollo 11 mission:
"It's just
not possible to get to know the systems too well. These briefings have
been a tremendous help. I consider them basic for mission
preparation."
............ astronaut David Scott, CSM pilot, Apollo
IX
"You know,
every so often the memory bank gets flushed. These briefings are
invaluable to bring us up to date."
.......astronaut Richard Gordon, CSM pilot, Apollo XII
"As
astronauts, we fully appreciate your pledge of continued dedication and
support in your work with the Apollo spacecraft program"
..............letter
from the Apollo astronauts
