Apollo Program March 1965

Advanced Design, Fabrication, and Testing

March 1965
1965
March 1ASPO organized a new management group, the Configuration Control Board, to oversee proposals for engineering changes. The board comprised groups representing management, the three Apollo modules, and critical Apollo systems (guidance and navigation, spacecraft checkout equipment, and the extravehicular mobility unit).
MSC, "Apollo Spacecraft Program Office Configuration Management Plan, March 1, 1965," Revision A, March 19, 1965.

March 29, 1965.
March 29-April 4Beech Aircraft Corporation stopped all end-item acceptance tests of hydrogen and oxygen tanks as a result of interim failure reports issued against three tanks undergoing tests. Failures ranged from exceeding specification tolerances and failure to meet heat leak requirements to weld failure on the H2 tank. Beech would resume testing when corrective action was established and approved by North American.

NAA, "Project Apollo Spacecraft Test Program Weekly Activity Report (Period 29 March 1965 through 4 April 1965)," p. 4; "Apollo Monthly Progress Report," SID 62-300-36, p. 12.
March 31MSC requested that Grumman incorporate in the command list for LEMs 1, 2, and 3 the capability for turning the LEM transponder off and on by real-time radio command from the Manned Space Flight Network. Necessity for capability of radio command for turning the LEM transponder on after LEM separation resulted from ASPO's decision that the LEM and Saturn instrument unit S-band transponders would use the same transmission and reception frequencies.