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Hm, it seems I should have been more specific. I am aware of the mechanism, I'm hoping someone might have even a bit of insight into what that tribal knowledge
by mandelbrotwurst 7y ago
Hm, it seems I should have been more specific. I am aware of the mechanism, I'm hoping someone might have even a bit of insight into what that tribal knowledge is/was.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agohttps://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-technology-inventions-computers-heat-shield-rovers https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-technology-inventi... Stuff like > Finally, the parachutes were folded and packed by hand. During the Apollo missions in the 1960s and early 1970s, only three people in the country were trained, and then licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, to fold Apollo parachutes—Norma Cretal, Buzz Corey and Jimmy Calunga —and they handled all 11 Apollo missions. Their skills were considered so essential that NASA forbade them from ever riding in the same car together. The agency couldn’t afford to chance that all three would be injured in a single accident. I also doubt that the seamstresses techniques to sew those parachutes are something easily written down