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rendezvous has been Oberg's life-long professional specialization.
From his senior undergraduate honors thesis to his NASA-funded
graduate studies, to his military duty tracking (and avoiding)
Soviet spy satellites, to his work at Mission Control, and
at home, to his life-long amateur satellite observations,
he has been immersed in 'orbits'. For NASA, he 'wrote the
books' on crew procedures for space shuttle rendezvous, 'proximity
operations' (close-in maneuvering), and separation maneuvers.
He compiled the reference volume, "History of Orbital
Rendezvous", worked in Mission Control for the earliest
shuttle missions of this type, developed and documented the
console position (in the 'Trench', the front row seats) for
the 'GPO' (Guidance and Procedures Officer). He was lead 'Rendezvous
GPO' for the LDEF recovery mission, and later led the team
that developed the complex rendezvous and proximity operations
procedures for the first space station assembly mission in
1998. |
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| 03/24/2006
- MSNBC.com: ArabSat
bites the dust, dashing hopes |
| 01/31/2006
- MSNBC.com: “Spacesuit
goes overboard for unusual mission (SuitSat)” |
| 09/09/2005
- MSNBC.com: “XSS-11
performs multiple satellite rendezvouses” |
| 08/03/2005
- MSNBC: “Phantom
Force’ Lofts Space Station – For Free” |
| 06/13/2005
- The Space Review: Academic
Honors for a Spaceflight Prophet |
| 02/28/2005
- The Space Review: Action-reaction
in space: the "gyrodine war" heats up |
| 11/09/2004
- MSNBC.com: Did
NASA space robot dodge disaster? |
| 08/03/2004
- MSNBC.com: Spacewalkers
cope with phantom menace |
| 03/01/2000
- Scientific American: A
Bus Between the Planets |
| 02/01/2000
- Space Probe's
Complex Courtship Dance With Eros UPI |
| 12/01/1998
- Fancy
Space Maneuvers on STS-88: Firsts and Lasts on Space Assembly
Mission |
| 12/1996
- Air and Space Magazine (PDF
File): United
We Orbit |
| 09/1995
- Flight Design and Dynamics Newsletter (PDF
File): "Feeling"
Orbital Mechanics |
| 07/1984
- Lunar Fly-By
Into Retrograde GEO |
