Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stung by congressional criticism and aware that everyone had sadly underestimated the complexity of a soft lander, NASA, Hughes Aircraft (which designed and built Surveyor) and Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which directed the project, provided technical advice, and eventually controlled the flights) moved to rescue the floundering program...
Success Incentive. Under a newly-appointed triumvirate consisting of JPL's Surveyor Project Manager Robert Parks, Deputy Manager Howard Haglund and Hughes's Program Manager Robert Roderick, JPL-Hughes staffs were imbued with an "I think I can, I think I can" philosophy. To increase efficiency and desire...
The remedies worked. Knowing that glitches were bound to occur in the 83,000 different Surveyor components (34,000 in the Doppler and descent radar alone), scientists considered the first four craft as "engineering models," and would have been delighted if only one of them had made a successful soft...
Although NASA has ordered no additional Surveyors, Hughes scientists believe that the reliable little craft would be ideal for further lunar exploring-even for a trip to Mars. Properly modified, they say, Surveyor could land gently on Mars and return pictures and data for only ¼ to ⅓ the cost...
Charles Evans Hughes once went to bed thinking he was President of the U.S., and woke up to discover that he was just another citizen. Carl Michael Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox went to Puerto Rico at the end of the 1967 baseball season, apparently certain of winning unanimous...