Lec 9 MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005
Well, it's my privilege to introduce Henry Pohl today. Henry has been a longtime colleague of mine working in the early days of Apollo and Shuttle. He is an old country boy but he has created more innovative designs on technical problems than anybody I know. And we will try to bring some of those out because he has really created some very innovative solutions to technical problems. And I am going to set Henry up a little bit so let me set the stage for you a little bit. I was manager of the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and the engineers came to me and said, Aaron, the waste management system on the Shuttle is not working very well. Now, the waste management system, in simple terms, is the toilet. They said the toilet is not working very well, and we really need to go off and design a new toilet. I thought for a moment, well, that's probably a pretty important thing to do, so we did. Well, it turns out the original contract, and I am quoting a little bit from memory, wa...