Friday, December 13, 2019 "Safe Return of the Apollo 11 Manned Crew Capsule from the Moon to the Earth"
Noel Thyson has undergraduate and graduate school degrees from the University of Illinois in Aeronautical Engineering located in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He has a distinguished alumni award from the Aeronautical Engineering Department at the University of Illinois and was awarded a life time membership in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He worked for 47 years at Avco/Textron Systems Division in Wilmington, Ma and retired in the year 2009. He worked in the Advanced/Research Department and was director of conceptual design, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, flight mechanics, and materials.
He will present today a summary of the Apollo 11 Manned Crew flight from the earth to the moon and back to earth on July 19 —24, 1969. The first landing of man on the moon. He will concentrate on presenting details of the hostile/high temperature environments that surrounded the Crew Capsule upon reentry from the moon through the earth’s atmosphere and on the ablative heat shield thermal protection system used to protect the Crew for a Safe Return from the Moon to the Earth.
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