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A meeting was held in the Spring of 1962 to convince engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama that lunar-orbit rendezvous was the best plan for sending people to the moon. After a few hours this fact became obvious. Among those present was John Paup, North American's program manager for the Apollo spacecraft, which would have been the vehicle to land on the moon in the earth-orbit rendezvous scenario. Although it was likely his company would no longer be building the moon lander, Paup stood up and told the audience, "I've heard all these good things about lunar-orbit rendezvous. I'd like to hear what [expletive deleted] thinks it isn't the right thing to do." It is perhaps at that moment that the lunar module was born. |
