[ cheers and applause ] bill reeves in the middle and jack knight on the far end. [ applause ] richard, why don't you start us off? >> okay. see, i graduated college in 1966 and went to work for groman aircraft company at the time. i started testing the environmental control systems on the lunar module which involved getting co2 out of the atmosphere. in a closed environment like that, have you to scrub it. otherwise, you're in trouble. it was cabin pressure management and life support type things was my focus during the testing and development phases. >> bill? >> good morning. i'm bill reeves and grew up in arkansas and got here as fast as i could. [ applause ] >> so i joined here in 1967 and went straight to the flight control division and was a flight controller on the lunar module in the electrical power system group. we were responsible for all of the power systems, which on the limb was just batteries. and the distribution system in keeping track of power profiles. we also were in charge of the pyrotech knick devices that separated the stages and open e valves and all that kind o

the panel here is jack knight, bob nance, hal loden, and bill reeves. instead of me going on about them i will ask them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did and then open it for questions. my name is john charles. i am the science in fast scientist in residence at space center houston. i would like to turn the microphone over to mr. knight. to talk about what you did here for apollo 11, what brought you here in the first place and your recollection of that important day. jack: i was the son of an air force family. we were in various bases around the world. i went to the georgia institute of technology and graduated in 1965. i came directly to the manned space flight center, in particular the apollo systems group. at the time i arrived, apollo had been a program in work, but we were flying the gemini and the gina vehicles. i was in the environmental control, electrical power area. i participated in every lunar flight, including the unmanned one. i was in the ssr staff support room for that. and on all subsequent flights i was in t

. >> jack knight, i'm the a member of an air force family that bounced around the world the number of times in a number places and went to georgia tech and graduated in 1965, in operations and was assigned to the lunar module. the lunar module wasn't quite ready at the time so we participated in the gemini and a gina programs a little bit. but, once they were over, the apollo moved out. the first lunar module was unmanned, and i was involved in that, that was launched on saturn 1b and went around the earth a few times and it automatically executed some of the critical events that had to happen . >> after that, we started to really pick up and i was involved in all of the flights, apollo 9 through apollo 17 and then it was out where the apollo 9 and subsequent poker and on apollo 11 so i got to see armstrong step on the moon and the rest of the eva . >> nasa had a process by which if they had an uncertainty in particular areas they would often put you contractors to work and so the first one that came up with a good solution, you are in to the rest of it and the other guy that was paid

as we go around we have the panel here jack knight to the immediate left, bob nance, bill reeves and hal loden, i will have them identify themselves briefly and say a little about what they did and then open it a little for questions and since i didn't introduce myself, my name is john charles and i'm a scientist here is the center, houston. i would like to turn the microphone over to mr. knight to talk about what you did to apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place in your recognition of that important day . >> okay. i was the son of an air force family and we were in various places around the world and i went to georgia institute of technology and came directly here to the space flight center and was hired by the operations area and in particular the apollo systems group. at the time that i arrived, apollo had been is a programming work but we were flying the gemini and the gina vehicles. >> i was in the environmental control and electrical power area and i participated in every lunar module flight, including the first unmanned one and, i was in the ss our staff suppor

the panel is jack knight, bob nance, harold loden, and bill reeves. i'll have them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did, and then open it up a little bit for questions. by the way, since i didn't introduce myself, i'm john charles, the scientist in residence here. i'd like to turn the microphone over to mr. knight to talk a little bit about what you did here for apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place, and your recollections of that important day. >> okay. i was the son of an air force family. we were in various bases around the world. i went to georgia institute of technology and graduated in 1965. i came directly here to the manned space flight center and was hired by the operations area. and in particular, the apollo systems group. at the time i arrived, apollo had been as a program in work, but we were flying the gemini and the gina vehicles. i was in the environmental control electrical control area. -- i was on -- in the ssr staff support room for that. and on all subsequent flights i was in the mission ope

i will turn it over to jack. knight, i was a member of the air force family that bounced around the world a number of times, a number of places. went to georgia tech, graduated in 1965, and came straight here at the manned space flight center, also in operations. was signed to the lunar module. the lunar module wasn't quite ready at the time, so we participate in the gemini program a little bit. , apolloy were over moved out. the first lunar module was unmanned, i was involved in that. that went around the earth a few times and it automatically executed some of the critical events that had to happen such as trying to burn the engine, burning an asset engine, and he didn't have any people on board. atmospheric integrity. after that, we started to really pick up and i was involved in all of the manned flights, apollo nine through apollo 17. roomrted out in the back and was out for all of the apollo nine and subsequent. ship -- shiftmy was right after the landing shift so i waited for that to happen. came out immediately t