Epic Life Adventures

Norman Howard Casson has spent his technical career of six decades in aerospace. Though Casson was employed as a launch test conductor for the Titan I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, and later the Titan II, he is best known for his contributions to the United States lunar landing program, “The Apollo Project.” Mr. Casson worked on the Apollo Missions for NASA as an engineer and served in Technical Executive Management on NASA's Apollo Project, having the responsibility of testing every piece of equipment that would take the astronauts to the moon and back. He is a wealth of information on the American Space program.

0:00:00 INTRODUCTION

0:16:49 APOLLO HEADHUNTERS-DENVER

0:18:49 GOD’S GIFT OF MEMORY

0:27:21 WERNER VON BRAUN

0:33:31 18 TITAN II ICBMS-TUSCAN ARIZONA

0:53:26 AIR FORCE-SAC

0:59:01 ELITE TIGER TEAM-SAC TROUBLESHOOTING

1:06:55 1ST INSPECTION OF APOLLO 11 AFTER SPLASHDOWN-LEROY MILLER, NORM CASSON, HARRY PECK

1:07:31 TITAN 1 - "HIT THAT SWITCH!" - ICBM FLASHBACK

1:21:58 "THAT'S MY BABY!" - APOLLO 9 AT SDASM

1:25:21 CASSON INTERNATIONAL-FOUNDED AEROSPACE BUSINESS

1:27:11 COSMONAUTS VISIT APOLLO 11-WITH NASA'S GENE CERNAN & NORM CASSON

1:53:07 CLOSING COMMENTS

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