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| Danny Deger |
 Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:33 pm |
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Does anyone know of NASA sitting an astronaut down for any problem found
during training? I trained one crew that the pilot would often suddenly
fall asleep in a briefing. I don't mean nod off, but BAMM -- lights out.
The commander set up a rule, the pilot had to pay $5 everytime he fell
asleep. They threw a party with the funds. I understand it was a well
funded party :-)
I was concerned that this issue might effect flight safety. My point here
is there was NO place in the system for me as an instructor to let people
know I had a concern. There was an unwritten policy that all astronauts
that are assigned to fly will fly. The Russians told me that they will and
have sat an astronaut down if they see something in training they don't
like.
Danny Deger |
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| Vincent D. DeSimone |
| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:12 pm |
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Quote: Does anyone know of NASA sitting an astronaut down for any problem found
during training?
Gordo Cooper, if my history is correct. He was pretty much sidelined after
his Gemini flight for not taking training seriously. |
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| JD in TX |
| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:10 am |
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"Danny Deger" <dannydeger@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:45cbdd68$0$1348$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
Quote: I trained one crew that the pilot would
often suddenly fall asleep in a briefing. I don't mean nod off, but
BAMM -- lights out.
You must've been boring as hell. |
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| Skylon |
| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:16 pm |
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On Feb 9, 4:12 pm, "Vincent D. DeSimone" <desimo...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Quote: Does anyone know of NASA sitting an astronaut down for any problem found
during training?
Gordo Cooper, if my history is correct. He was pretty much sidelined after
his Gemini flight for not taking training seriously.
Donn Eisele to an extent also.
Mostly for his performance on Apollo 7, but he was kind of given a
chance to redeem himself as backup CMP on Apollo 10. But Walt
Cunningham notes in his book Eisele kinda took on Gordo Cooper's (the
backup commander) lax attitude to training.
Deke Slayton felt Eisele's messy divorce also impacted his work
performance.
-A.L. |
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