12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
10:52 a.m.
On 3/12/2013 6:18 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:05 AM, William Donzelli
<wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Same here,. I bought a tracking station radar manual for the Mercury
radars. They were used up till the shuttle at many sites till they were
decomissioned or upgraded. It is a radar which was originally designed
to work at about 4 or 5 miles range and was modified to work out to a
few hundred and make an antenna track the spacecraft. Very basic
technology.
http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2010/11/verlort-manual-set.html
Who are "we"? I have heard there is a
group trying to save and archive
NASA technical documentation, but I know little of them.
I don't know of any
organized document-saving organization, but a lot of stuff goes through NARA. The
"we" I refer to is the group working on NASSP. We don't have any kind of
public document repository or anything like that, we just collect what we need to build
the simulator.
I have a manual for one of the missile tracking
ships (T-AGM-6, I
think) used for some of the manned missions that probably needs to be
placed in some sort of good digital archive.
That does sound like something that
should be saved, but I have no idea how you would go about doing it.