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rendezvous has been Oberg's life-long professional specialization.
From his senior undergraduate honors thesis to his NASA-funded
graduate studies, to his military duty tracking (and avoiding)
Soviet spy satellites, to his work at Mission Control, and
at home, to his life-long amateur satellite observations,
he has been immersed in 'orbits'. For NASA, he 'wrote the
books' on crew procedures for space shuttle rendezvous, 'proximity
operations' (close-in maneuvering), and separation maneuvers.
He compiled the reference volume, "History of Orbital
Rendezvous", worked in Mission Control for the earliest
shuttle missions of this type, developed and documented the
console position (in the 'Trench', the front row seats) for
the 'GPO' (Guidance and Procedures Officer). He was lead 'Rendezvous
GPO' for the LDEF recovery mission, and later led the team
that developed the complex rendezvous and proximity operations
procedures for the first space station assembly mission in
1998. |
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| 03/24/2006
- MSNBC.com: ArabSat
bites the dust, dashing hopes |
| 01/31/2006
- MSNBC.com: “Spacesuit
goes overboard for unusual mission (SuitSat)” |
| 09/09/2005
- MSNBC.com: “XSS-11
performs multiple satellite rendezvouses” |
| 08/03/2005
- MSNBC: “Phantom
Force’ Lofts Space Station – For Free” |
| 06/13/2005
- The Space Review: Academic
Honors for a Spaceflight Prophet |
| 02/28/2005
- The Space Review: Action-reaction
in space: the "gyrodine war" heats up |
| 11/09/2004
- MSNBC.com: Did
NASA space robot dodge disaster? |
| 08/03/2004
- MSNBC.com: Spacewalkers
cope with phantom menace |
| 03/01/2000
- Scientific American: A
Bus Between the Planets |
| 02/01/2000
- Space Probe's
Complex Courtship Dance With Eros UPI |
| 12/01/1998
- Fancy Space
Maneuvers on STS-88: Firsts and Lasts on Space Assembly Mission |
| 12/1996
- Air and Space Magazine (PDF
File): United
We Orbit |
| 09/1995
- Flight Design and Dynamics Newsletter (PDF
File): "Feeling"
Orbital Mechanics |
| 07/1984
- Lunar Fly-By
Into Retrograde GEO |
Space
Rendezvous Relative Motion Plots (1937-1992 and beyond)
- under construction
"A
History of Orbital Rendezvous" (NASA, 1991)"
In 1990-1, as part of training documentation and procedural
development documentation, Oberg compiled original reports
and excerpts from publications concerning the origin, development,
implementation, and flight experience of orbital rendezvous,
along with writing transition and commentary chapters. The
book came to be called “A History of Orbital Rendezvous”,
and ‘self-published’ 3-ring-binder copies were
filed with the Flight Design and Dynamics Division, the
Flight Director Office, the Astronaut Office, and the JSC
Technical Library. Oberg brought one home with him when
he left JSC in 1997. He has no idea which others, or copies
thereof, may survive at NASA, so this web page will try
to share as much of the manuscript as he finds time to scan.
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", James Oberg, 1990-1, "Lesson
Plan" overview
"History of Orbital Rendezvous", James Oberg,
1990-1, Table of Contents
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", Opening Essay, "Roots
of Rendezvous" (Oberg)
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", Chapter 1, Hacker, "The
Idea of Rendezvous" [4 meg]
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", section 1, Ross (BIS) article
(1949) first uses word 'rendezvous' for space flight
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", section 1, von Braun describes
'space rendezvous', Hayden Planetarium, NYC, 1951
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", section 1, Arthur Clarke describes
'space rendezvous', 1951
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", section 1, Harry Ross retrospective
on development of concept (1976) of space rendezvous, JBIS,
London
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", section 1, 'Buzz' Aldrin PhD
thesis, MIT, on 'orbital rendezvous' (1963) as a piloting
task
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", description of visual acuity
test deployed balloons, Mercury program
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", crew report, Gemini-IV re-rendezvous
failure (June 1965) [1.5 meg]
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", Gemini-IV re-rendezvous failure,
perspective from Hacker and Aldrin
Gemini 1 0f 3, GT-4 and GT-5
Gemini 2 of 3, GT-6 [December 1965]
Gemini 3 of 3, GT-8, 9A, 10, 11, 12 and summaries
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", Apollo-11 crew report (Armstrong,
Aldrin) on lunar orbit rendezvous results (July 1969)
Skylab rendezvous profile [1973-4] 8 meg
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", STS Design Reference Mission
3A/3B (DoD one-rev deploy/rendezvous/retrieve/return), 1973
[2 meg]
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", chapter: "Rendezvous Procedure
Modifications for STS" (Oberg, 1990) [2 meg]
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", chapter: "Post-flight
detailed reports, STS rendezvous missions 1983-1990",
Oberg et al., 1990 [8 meg]
"History
of Orbital Rendezvous", STS chapter: "STS-32 LDEF
Retrieve Postflight Report", Oberg (lead RNDZ GPO,
MCC)
"History of Space Shuttle Rendezvous", July 2011, John Goodman, Flight Design and Dynamics Division, NASA JSC |
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