Passing of the MICHIGAN MAN who saved the first moon landing
As the proud holder of a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from MICHIGAN, I regret to pass along all of you a bit of sad news today -- the passing of Jack Garman. He was a MICHIGAN engineer who worked for NASA in the 1960s and 1970s.
And he single-handedly saved the Apollo 11 moon landing from an abort, just minutes before the landing.
Here is the story and his obit: http://www.space.com/34135-jack-garman-apollo-11-obituary.html
The short version: Minutes before moon landing, the lander's computer started spitting out error codes that the astronauts had never seen -- "1201, 1202." They'd never trained on them. They were freaking out (as much as astronauts do.) Dean Kranz, the head back at Mission Control, needed answers -- fast.
Jack Garman knew the answer. In training, some weird codes had ended one training session, so he was tasked to write down every error code that could arise. 1201 and 1202 were on his list. He told everyone, not to worry, it's ok. So Mission Control relayed that to the astronauts - it's ok, ignore the alarms. The vehicle landed safely, and all was well. (The alarms meant the computer was being overtasked and was taking longer to respond than normal.)
If Jack hadn't been there to save the day, the astronauts were about to abort the mission. Space history would have been very different.
The MICHIGAN difference! Rest in peace, Mr. Garman.
September 21st, 2016 at 8:54 PM ^
RIP. Thanks for the info, OP.
September 21st, 2016 at 8:55 PM ^
September 21st, 2016 at 8:57 PM ^
Hail to an unsung hero.
September 21st, 2016 at 8:59 PM ^
But the moon landing was faked.
September 21st, 2016 at 9:03 PM ^
Oops sorry if I said something there you dodnt know.
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September 21st, 2016 at 9:05 PM ^
You can't tell me I'm not real!!!
September 21st, 2016 at 9:14 PM ^
RIP Garman.
Mars landing was fake...too bad it wasn't real, they could have left OJ there.
September 22nd, 2016 at 9:13 AM ^
Oh, you're real. I've always thought you were real. I'll go to my grave believing that you're real.
Now, where's that damn pony I wanted when I was six, you cheap bastard?
September 21st, 2016 at 9:11 PM ^
My wife believes they were faked. I gave up trying to convince her otherwise.
Fantastic post OP BTW
September 21st, 2016 at 9:11 PM ^
Well at least your wife knows the TRUTH. Think about it. All of the evidence says it was faked, so why not believe that it was?
September 21st, 2016 at 9:14 PM ^
Hey, if people can genuinely believe the moon landing was faked, what is from stopping us from thinking something else wasn't faked?
My list -
1. The Horror
2. Mike Lantry's missed FG(s)
3. The timeout vs NC
4. The RR/Hoke era (less Denard)
5. The Charles White TD - wait, we know that was fake!
RIP Garman
September 21st, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^
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September 22nd, 2016 at 6:30 AM ^
Ps: My hard hat at work has a custom made label that simply states '#CJK5H'.
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September 22nd, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
...allegedly
September 21st, 2016 at 9:14 PM ^
September 21st, 2016 at 9:19 PM ^
DO NONE OF YOU GET IT!? YOU'RE ALL GODDAMN COGS BRAINWASHED BY THE GOVERNMENT!! I'VE SEEN THE TRUTH. I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!! NONE OF YOU ARE READY, YET. BUT YOU WILL BE SOON.....
September 21st, 2016 at 9:29 PM ^
September 21st, 2016 at 9:37 PM ^
Global warming was invented by Al Gore just so he could make money off of his shitty little movie he made.
September 22nd, 2016 at 7:28 AM ^
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September 22nd, 2016 at 5:46 AM ^
240 tons of coal, enought to bury your house. say good bye to the monopoly game and the chemistry set you asked for. pffff!
September 22nd, 2016 at 12:59 PM ^
That's close to a $10,000 present!
September 21st, 2016 at 9:35 PM ^
Same thing I always say about the '94 game against CU. Staged. As fake as a game ever could be. Nobody ever believes me, either, Santa. There are even conspiritors here, on MGoBlog, fer crissakes...
September 21st, 2016 at 9:39 PM ^
All of televised sports is faked. It is used to distract us from what the global elite are really doing behind closed doors. Stay on the lookout brother!
September 21st, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^
Here's the video spoof... er, proof that the moon landing was faked:
September 21st, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^
But he's not named after Santa Claus. He's Santa Clause.
September 22nd, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
Tim Allen is totally a real person
September 21st, 2016 at 9:08 PM ^
.....and these are the best kind of Michigan stories, in my opinion. The ones where someone relatively unsung and unknown did something incredibly significant and lasting.
RIP Jack Garman.
September 21st, 2016 at 9:53 PM ^
No Dean.
September 21st, 2016 at 9:58 PM ^
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September 21st, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
Interesting fact: the woman who wrote much the code for the Apollo project, Margaret Hamilton, started her BA at Michigan.
And that's how much code she helped to write, printed out in physical form.
September 21st, 2016 at 11:12 PM ^
about the 1201 & 1202 errors
RIP Jack Garman
September 22nd, 2016 at 6:59 AM ^
Was the Wicked Witch of the West. Interesting.
September 22nd, 2016 at 9:19 AM ^
In fact, if NASA's funding hadn't been cut, one of the future Apollo missions was going to write "Surrender Dorothy" over Cape Canaveral.
Which would have been cool.
September 22nd, 2016 at 8:00 AM ^
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September 22nd, 2016 at 8:32 AM ^
On a side note, I couldn't help but notice that the error messages from the Apollo computer were 1201 and 1202 and the astronauts had never seen them before. Could it be because all that computers spit out back then were zeros and ones? :)
September 22nd, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^
Computers these days still spit out 1s and 0s as well. That hasn't changed.
September 22nd, 2016 at 9:40 AM ^
Thanks for sharing.
September 22nd, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^
It's a GREAT story!
September 22nd, 2016 at 3:51 PM ^
For any MGoSoftware developers, the source code from the Apollo program is public...