From: "John Keeney"
Date: 10/19/2003 1:49 AM Central Daylight Time
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"Bill Silvey" wrote:

"Bob McKellar" wrote in message

B2431 wrote:

From: Alan Minyard a

NASA even built a "zero-G" test rig to try out the landers
controls.
It had a lift engine that could be throttled to exactly balance out
the weight of the rig, so the thrusted operated at "zero-G"

Al Minyard

I think they had more than one. I recall a pilot punching out of one
just before it crashed.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Fella name of Armstrong.

Probably ruined his career, busting up the gear like that.

Wonder whatever happened to him........

Bob McKellar

Went on to do some flight testing for equipment with some alphabet-soup
organization down on the sleepy part of Florida's east coast, IIRC.
Some
government branch or something.

It's rumored after that one incident that only two other guys in the
whole
place would fly with him.

Sad, really.

;-)


Sounds familiar...isn't he the guy who got a little off course
and landed his craft on some little used spot something like a
quarter of a million miles from home?...I hear that he got it
back home ok though, lucky for him.

I think he even got out to ask for directions, but couldn't find anyone.

I guess they just kind of aimed in the general direction of home, and
found
it.

Yea, but last I heard he was teaching school some place in Ohio...

Now you know the real reason NASA has female astronauts; they now have someone
to send out to ask for directions.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired