[PLUG-TALK] Happy One Small Step day

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> writes:
Paul> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> Happy 48th anniversary of man's first visit to the moon.

Paul> My father -- who worked at North American Rockwell's plant in
Paul> Downey, CA and who was a weights engineer on the Apollo project --

Russell> What is a weights engineer?  It sounds pretty specialized on
Russell> the one hand, and irrelevant-in-space on the other ;-).

Not irrelevant-in-space ;-)

>From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAWE):

"Mass Properties Engineering refers to the prediction, determination,
management, and tracking of weight, centers of gravity, moments of
inertia, and products of inertia for any new vehicle; which are critical
factors for determination of its performance and capabilities. Mass
Properties Engineering, a.k.a. “Weight Engineering”, is the technical
discipline that balances the weight and moment of every component of a
product to ensure that it functions safely, efficiently, and
economically. Behind just about every technological achievement is a
successful application of Mass Properties Engineering."


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Russell Senior, President
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