Here are three awesome vintage Apollo 16 flight controller used items I recently obtained from the family of NASA Flight Controller John Cooper. According to the family, Coopers' sister 'has decided to part with several boxes of material that belonged to her brother, John H. Cooper, a NASA engineer and geology-specialist flight controller at the Manned Spacecraft Center (later re-named Johnson Space Center) during the Apollo Program. According to [the] family, he was also involved in the development of the Lunar Rover. He died in early 1973, near the summit of Mt. Aconcagua (Argentina), shortly after participating in Apollo 17, the last manned moon mission. Below is a screenshot of him from the NASA documentary, "On the Shoulders of Giants," which includes footage of him taken during Apollo 17.'
There are some very interesting notations made by Cooper on the below pages which have been excerpted from these documents!
JOHN COOPER
NASA FLIGHT CONTROLLER
APOLLO 16 FLIGHT PLAN CHANGE A
COVER
PAGE 3-1
COOPER IS 'ON CONSOLE'
'LIFT OFF ONTIME'
'GO FOR ORBIT'
PAGE 3-2
'SIVB APS LEAKING BUT NOT SUFFICIENTLY TP PREVENT TLI AND TD E.'
'MIGHT HAVE AN IMPACT ON THE SIVB LUNAR IMPACT OBJECTIVE'
PAGE 3-5
'GO' FOR TLI
TLI 'ON TIME'
'SECO ON TIME'
'GO' FOR TRANSPOSITION AND DOCKING
PAGE 3-6
'HARD DOCK'
'GO FOR LM EJECTION'
PAGE 3-9
'KRANZ ON FD'
'NORTH AMERICA CLEAR OF CLOUDS FROM LAKE MICHIGAN TO SOUTH OF YUCATAN MEX.'
PAGE 3-11
'POTENTIAL PROBLEM DEVELOPED: DUKE OBSERVED FLAKING OF MATERIAL FROM THERMAL BLANKET IN AREA OF LM RCS "A" AREA. COVERS HE AND O2 TANKS. MAY BE TANK LEAKAGE OR JUST PAINT PEELING OFF THE AL THERMAL COVERING.'
PAGE 3-12
'GRIFF SICK. DOUBLE SHIFT'
(GERRY GRIFFIN?)
PAGE 3-13
'POWERED UP LM TO LOOK AT RCS QUAD A PROP TANK QUALITIES AND PRESSURES'
'ALL DATA LOOKED GOOD'
'TV OF AREA UNDER DISCUSSION DIDN'T SHOW ANY SOURCE FOR THE PROBLEM BUT COULD SEE THE FLAKING VERY WELL'
PAGE 3-20
'P37 PADS' CALCULATIONS
'G. GRIFFIN ON'
PAGE 3-61
'MOON
V=3668.1
h=18063.9 NM'
PAGE 3-74
'PREDICTED SIVB IMPACT 1 50' N 23 18' W'
'IMPACTED AT 21:02:02 ... FROM APOLLO 12 ALSEP...'
PAGE 3-84
'IN LUNAR ORBIT'
PAGE 3-112
INTERESTING HANDWRITTEN BLOCK GRAPH
PAGE 3-349
'NOMINAL BURN'
ASSOCIATED FIGURES
PAGE 3-352
EVA OPERATIONS
CHECKMARKS
'HATCH OPEN'
PAGE 3-353
CMP AND LMP DOFF BIOMED HARNESS
'HEART RATE GOT AS HIGH AS 170'
(DUKE?)
PAGE 3-354
'LMP STARTING IN HATCH'
'REPRESS FROM EVA'
PAGE 3-394
'290:08:38'
'RECOVERY FORCES ON STATION'
':32 FROM LDG-ALL ASTRO'S ON BOARD HELO'
PAGE 5-16
'191:00 = 213:00 OF ORIGINAL FLT PLN.'
'CONTINUE EQUIPMENT TRANSFER FROM LM'
PAGE 5-19
217:00
LM JETT
CSM SEP
'COULD NOT GET LM THRUSTERS TO FIRE DUE FAULTY CS CONFIGURATION IN LM DURING LM CLOSEOUT'
PAGE 5-20
236:00
'CREW STILL SLEEPING'
PAGE 5-23
272:00
SKYLAB CONTAMINATION PHOTOS
'SKYLAB CONTAM'
NUMEROUS CALCULATIONS
APOLLO 16 LM CUE CARD CHANGE A
COVER
LIST OF EFFECTIVE PAGES DESCRIBING NUMEROUS LM CUE CARDS
'LM CUE CARD LOCATIONS'
CONFIGURATION
APOLLO 16 LM LUNAR SURFACE CHECKLIST
REVISION A
COVER
LIST OF EFFECTIVE PAGES, WITH NOTATIONS
CONTENTS, WITH NOTATIONS
NOTATION INDICATING CORRESPONDS
TO 'FLT PLAN 3-110'
NOTATION INDICATING CORRESPONDS
TO 'FLT PLAN 3-112'
NOTATION INDICATING CORRESPONDS
TO 'FLT PLAN P 3-112'
INTERESTING HANDWRITTEN GRAPH NOTATIONS
NOTATION INDICATING CORRESPONDS
TO 'FLT PLAN 3-112'
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