John Aaron
John W. Aaron (* 1943 in Wellington , Texas ) is an American aerospace engineer and former NASA flight director. He did this job during the Apollo program .
Life
Aaron came to NASA as a flight controller with responsibility for electrical, environmental and communications systems. With the start of Gemini 2 he was already working in the control center.
Aaron is awarded for saving the Apollo 12 mission after the missile was struck by lightning. He also played an important role in the rescue of Apollo 13 . He was portrayed in the film Apollo 13 by Loren Dean .
He later worked on the Skylab program and helped develop software for the space shuttle . He became manager of the Johnson Space Center 's Space Station project office in 1989 . In 1993, he was forced to resign after being accused of overstretching the budget by $ 500 million.
Aaron became a manager at Johnson Space Center's Engineering Directorate in 1993 and remained there until his retirement in 2000.
literature
- Gene Kranz: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond . Berkeley Trade, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-425-17987-1 .
- Jim Lovell, Kluger, Jeffrey Bly: Apollo 13 . Pocket books (reissue edn), New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-671-53464-6 .
- Charles Murray, Cox, Catherine Bly: Apollo: The Race to the Moon . Simon and Schuster, New York 1989, ISBN 978-0-671-61101-9 .
Web links
- Apollo 12 lightning strike
- Apollo 13, We Have a Solution , Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum , April 2005
- Transcripts of interviews with John Aaron in the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project, 2000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lost Moon by Jeffrey Kluger and James Lovell, Houghton Mifflin (T) (October 1994) ISBN 0-395-67029-2 .
- ^ President is expected to Request Full Financing for Space Station. Retrieved March 31, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aaron, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aaron, John W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | NASA American flight director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellington (Texas) |