[Encore] Feet on the Ground, Eyes on the Stars: The True Story of a Real Rocket Man with G.A. “Jim” Ogle
User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth
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The Challenges of Launching a Shuttle
We were supposed to fly the first one in 79 but the tiles kept falling off that were supposed to protect us from reentry for the heat of reentry. So they had to do all this pulling off every single tile 33,000 of them and sticking them back on with a new procedure where they wouldn't fall off because if that was tile fell off they were made out of sand. And unlike the Saturn where we had two launches without people on top to test the system,. We had to put two people in it. When did we do that? John, you had to have manual systems in there that somebody had to turn this on turn that off. There's a pretty great risk for
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