"Good Times"  Chronicles

 

This section is devoted to special articles or comments of the Apollo Training Team instructors as related to their personal activities and experience(s) during the program. Each member of the team was required to travel primarily to the Johnson Spacecraft Center (JSC) in Houston, and the Launch Complex in Florida to conduct classes. Their travels also took them to associate & subcontractor sites for systems engineering briefings & reviews. Many of the team members served in their spare time to support community educational and fraternal organizations where Apollo mission and space systems lectures were requested. Some of these were through the company's Public Relations Department, while others came from requests directed to the Training Department.

Many stories of experiences during travel or in the classroom (or otherwise), were exchanged among informal gatherings of instructor personnel at coffee breaks or other social gatherings of the training team. Some of the stories (all true of course) are special in some way, and the team members would like to share them with you in this section.

"Reminiscences of an Apollo Instructor Submitted by Instructor Thoral E. Gilland