Instructor Gary Steinbeck

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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

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Gary L. Steinbeck began his career with the U.S. Navy as an electronics technician for shipboard electronics equipment consisting of radar, communications, and sonar. He served most of his Navy time aboard a radar picket ship, the USS Fessenden DER-142 on both the East and West coasts.
He joined Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa after discharge from the Navy in 1958 as a Senior Laboratory Technician. Tasks included conducting electrical tests and measurements including environmental and life tests on all types of electronic components. Later he became a Field Service Engineer providing technical assistance and support on Collins equipment for military and commercial field service engineers. He also served as a technical information center for other departments and divisions within Collins Radio. Other assignments included writing Service Bulletins and Service Information Letters.
In 1965, he was assigned to the Collins Radio Company Training Department as an instructor to teach Collins equipment to military and commercial customers. Later he was assigned to North American Aviation under contract to teach Apollo equipment. He was transferred from Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to North American Space and Information Systems Div. in Downey, California to train NASA Astronauts, Flight controllers, and various contractor engineers and technicians on the......

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Astronaut Al Worden

Prents Snoopy Award

Instructor Gary Steinbeck

Telecommunication

System

Telecommunications System. In 1966, he joined North American Aviation as a Customer Training Specialist to provide training and training support documentation on the Apollo spacecraft to NASA Astronauts, Flight controllers, management, and engineering personnel. Documentation included the Apollo Operations Handbook, Skylab Operations Handbook, Apollo/Soyuz Test Project, and development of video tape recordings and programmed instruction material. He provided training for the Russian Cosmonauts on the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project. He also was assigned to the Public Relations department for technical support during Apollo and Skylab missions. This included briefings and interviews for various radio and television networks.After completion of the Apollo Program, Gary was transferred to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in 1975 for continued training support for the Shuttle Program.

Gary is now retired in his home state of Iowa and keeping in touch with his old friends and cohorts on the Internet and Amateur radio (W0SDI).