APOLLO 17 NASA RECOVERY ENGINEER, MILT HEFLIN, AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED

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APOLLO 17 NASA RECOVERY ENGINEER, MILT HEFLIN, AUTOGRAPH,HAND SIGNED
8 X 10 COLOR PHOTO, Signed by NASA RECOVERY ENGINEER, MILT HEFLIN. He reported for work at Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) on June 6, 1966. His initial role was as a ground test vehicle engineer and test conductor for the development and qualification of water recovery hardware and procedures for the Apollo command module. He was also a director for the command module’s reaction control subsystem deactivation and pyrotechnic safing team. He was on the prime recovery ships during the splashdowns and post-landing activities of Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, Apollo 17, each of the three Skylab missions and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Heflin then worked as a flight controller for orbiter electrical and environmental systems for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests as well as the shuttle’s first nine missions. Heflin progressed up the chain of command to work as a flight director, beginning with the April 1985 flight of STS-51D. He went on to oversee 20 shuttle flights, with seven as lead flight director in charge of overall operations on the ground. Heflin was lead flight director for: • STS-30 (May 1989), which deployed the Magellan planetary probe to Venus • STS-34 (October 1989), which deployed the Galileo probe to Jupiter • STS-41 (October 1990), which deployed the Ulysses probe to the sun • STS-44 (November-December 1991), a Department of Defense mission that also deployed the unclassified Defense Support Program Satellite • STS-47 (September 1992), which carried the Spacelab payload • STS-61 (December 1993), the first Hubble Space Telescope repair and servicing mission • STS-65 (July 1994), the second flight of the International Microgravity Laboratory When the shuttle Columbia broke up on February 1, 2003, Heflin was serving as chief of the flight director office.[3] That same day, he took part in an emotional press conference in which he and Shuttle Program Manager Ron Dittemore outlined the details of the accident as they knew them at that point. That job was followed by a stint as deputy director of the Mission Operations Directorate, an organization of approximately 3,000 government and contractor employees responsible for the planning, training and flying of humans in space. In 2007, he became associate director (technical) at JSC. At one time or another, Heflin has also been a charter member and deputy manager of the EVA (extravehicular activity) Project Office and served on the NASA Space Flight Safety Panel and as JSC’s Ombudsman. He was also a member of the NASA Advisory Council Task Force on International Space Station Operational Readiness. On March 1st of 2013, Milt Heflin retired from NASA. +++++++++++++++++++++++Combining Lots between two auctions, I will be happy to combine two auctions To save you additional postage- Please pay for these lot/lots & postage. If you are successful in the second auction I will bill you for the additional lot, With no additional postage charges. If you do not win any lots in the second auction, I can just ship the lot to you And not have to bill you again, and wait for payment Thank You Sean Marsar
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