Jonathan H. Ward by Rocket Ranch

Author:Rocket Ranch [Ranch, Rocket]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-15T08:07:39+00:00

Activating the LCC 157

6.26 The pneumatic distribution system control panel from area B, row C, of fi ring room 1.

Source : NASA/Ward

what they were doing , but every time something happened , people would say , “ That computer screwed up again !”

Everybody was getting honed down to a fi ne team. Everybody was working together , your procedures are talking on the net , the troubleshooting procedures , everything was starting to become like test pilots – people that have been around for years. The activation was where all the bugs were worked out , because there was no vehicle out there. We spent probably a year just activating .

We activated the launch control center at the same time that we went out to the mobile launcher. When you had a problem , the mobile launcher was inside the high bay , so you just had to go up to the 16th fl oor , where our offi ces were. We could walk right out from our offi ce into the high bay , and go work on the system. You ’ ve got one guy in the LCC and the other one in the high bay , working together on the intercom , trying to fi gure out “ How come when I fl ip that switch I don ’ t get a light ? ” and you have to start working backwards. All that wire mishmash in the panels – you might have a wire that was bad in the panel , and you had to pull the panel. And the technician would fi nd out that a wire wasn ’ t soldered properly. There was a lot of

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