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Flight Dynamics chief guided the ‘ground pilots’ By David Carey aths sometimes cross in interesting ways. I met Jerry Bostick—a figure I had often encountered in the space history literature—in person in Austin, Texas, at a premiere of the HD rerelease of “For All Mankind,” Al Reinert’s 1989 documentary on the Apollo missions. After recognizing the Mission Control emblem on his shirt, I struck up a conversation with the former head of the Apollo Flight Dynamics crew. As it turns out, Bostick retired to a central Texas town just up the road from Austin. We spent a 15 EE Times | Apollo | July 20, 2009 Jerry Bostick P few hours going over his lengthy career at NASA, which spanned from Mercury’s pre-lunar flights to the space shuttle. Flight Dynamics staffers were the “ground pilots” for space missions, responsible for knowing where the space vehicle was, where it was going, where it should be and how to get it to the desired place, including flight-path contingencies. While astronauts flew the spacecraft, those in Mission Operation Control Room and specifically in Flight Dynamics controlled the flight and its Bostick’s predilection for working ‘on known problems’ led him to NASA

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Apollo - July 20, 2009
Contents
Applying the Lessons of Apollo
Why Did We Go to the Moon?
In the Trenches: Profiles of the Engineers Who Made Apollo Go
Apollo Perspectives: Video Interview with Filmmaker David Sington
Virtual Teardown: Apollo Spacesuit
Virtual Teardown: The ‘Genesis’ Rock
Apollo Chip Teardown: Unit Logic Device
Ted Sorensen on Apollo
Soviet Space Firsts
Apollo Reader Forum
EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo - July 20, 2009
EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Contents
EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Applying the Lessons of Apollo
EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - 4
EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Why Did We Go to the Moon?
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - In the Trenches: Profiles of the Engineers Who Made Apollo Go
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo Perspectives: Video Interview with Filmmaker David Sington
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Virtual Teardown: Apollo Spacesuit
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Virtual Teardown: The ‘Genesis’ Rock
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo Chip Teardown: Unit Logic Device
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Ted Sorensen on Apollo
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Soviet Space Firsts
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EETimes - Apollo - July 20, 2009 - Apollo Reader Forum
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