2hrs of NASA aero brain telling it to MIT students

[DudleySquires]

If you're of a technical persuasion you may find this thoroughly interesting. Bass Redd talking about Shuttle design and development.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QRfkG7jOfY

"Bass Redd was employed for twenty-six years by the National Aeronautics And Space Administration as Chief of the Flight Technology Branch on the Apollo Program, Head of Conceptual Design and Chief of Flight Performance on the Space Shuttle Program, and Chief of Conceptual Design on the Space Station Program."

Edited by DudleySquires on Saturday 16th February 22:25

[Eric Mc]

That's only Leture 7. I've watched all 21. I posted a thread on the whole series over a year ago. It is fascinating.

The series was run in 2005 and, sadly, a number of the lecturers involved have now passed away.

[DudleySquires]

Thought someone may have posted about it before.

Nevertheless, what a fantastic record of how some chaps made history. Some folk might say that landing on the moon is [collective] mans greatest achievement - well, these are (..some of..) the [individual] men that actually achieved it.

I'll be sure to try and watch as many of these as I can.

[Eric Mc]

Pity so much effort and talent got sidelined into a technical white elephant.

[DudleySquires]

Eric - since you said you've watched them all... Did you manage to find the slides that they were using anywhere? It'd make watching the lectures much better but I can't find them.

[Eric Mc]

No - that is the most frustrating aspect of the talks. I had to use my imagination I expect they were concerned about the copyright of some of the images.

[DudleySquires]

Found them

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astrona...

Couldn't see where they were initially as the slide packs are organised in lecturer order, rather than lecture no. order.

[dr_gn]

DudleySquires said:

Eric - since you said you've watched them all... Did you manage to find the slides that they were using anywhere? It'd make watching the lectures much better but I can't find them.

I've watched most of them too - they are really great.

The lecture notes and loads of other related info can be found here (under "course Description"):

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astrona...

ETA You found them already!

[Eric Mc]

Good work.

I might have a look at those later.