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Butch Alandy: NASA Supplier of Critical Shuttle Part
Pre-dawn landing of Atlantis at Kennedy Spece Center, Florida
marking the end of the 30-year shuttle program.
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I instructed Beth Stubbings of NASA while she conducted an EVA gloved-hand manual actuation of my patented 1-1/2 tube inch Pressure-Balanced QD Coupling at an internal pressure of 500 psia inside an enclosed chamber chilled down to -100 degrees F temperature. This test was required by the astronaut office to prove that an EVA-suited astronaut can manually actuate our product in the micro-gravity of space. She was challenged to show her "arm strength" by Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao and by Colonel Jerry Ross to demonstrate that a 5th percentile female can apply enough force to actuate our coupling manually in space.
Beth Stubbings was a member of the NASA Astronaut Office in JSC Houston and she was the voice that instructed astronauts while performing underwater space equipment tests in JSC's deep pool. The official astronaut EVA glove was a seven-layered device that cost $50,000 a piece at that time and can only travel outside of NASA-JSC or KSC while in the company of an astronaut!
Butch wrote the following message to his group at Parker-Hannifin Corp. after the landing of Shuttle Atlantis recently, and below his message is a copy of a message from Peggy Whitson, Astronaut Office, to all participants in the Shuttle Program
Congratulations to the Camarillo (including the old Symetrics Newbury Park) engineering team, past and present, who spent many hours of dedicated work and service to support our friends at NASA-KSC and NASA-JSC.
Thanks to all of you indeed.
Butch
Jose "Butch" Alandy
THAT, AS THEY SAY IN SHOW BIZ, WOULD BE A WRAP!!! Mission Accomplished indeed.
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Now that Atlantis and the final Shuttle crew have safely returned to planet Earth, we are all feeling the finality of 30 years of
Space Shuttle flights. It is difficult to actually comprehend the thousands of people and the millions upon millions of hours that
went into the success of the Space Shuttle Program.
I find myself reflecting in awe as I endeavor to think of all the minds that were involved in the design, engineering and the
inevitable redesign of each minuscule detail of such a complex vehicle. Over the course of 30 years, I struggle to comprehend the
number of hands that touched the more than 25,000 tiles on each of the Orbiters, fixed or rewired many components, inspected and
verified the working order of the myriad of systems and subsystems before each of the 135 flights.
I seek to visualize all the sets of eyes that were critically monitoring each bit and byte of data while the Shuttles exerted their
massive power to overcome the gravity of our planet, operating in the vacuum of space, rendezvousing with the station or other
orbiting targets in an indescribable vastness, and then winging their way back home.
I strive to grasp at the numbers that lay behind the clever ideas that have been manifest into the middecks, payload bays, and
spacelabs, which were where then tested, deployed, or used to construct an orbiting outpost.
While the Shuttle is an incredible, one of a kind flying machine, the most important thing that this program has given us is wrapped
up in all the people and expertise that turned a concept into something real.
The ideas that became dreams, the dreams that became reality, were built by a rare breed of people.
The countless, but dedicated engineers, instructors, flight controllers, technicians, analysts, programmers, scientists and so many
more who have committed their not only their professions, but their lives to our space program have each played a vital role.
On behalf of the Astronaut Office, I would like to convey an immense debt of gratitude to all of those professionals who made the
Shuttle Program a success, from start to finish, with all the painstaking attention to details in between. We are exceptionally
honored to have flown with all of you as part of the Shuttle Program, and look forward to the continuation of our journey on board
the International Space Station and beyond.
Peggy A. Whitson
Chief, Astronaut Office
Butch with astronauts Jerry Ross (left) and Leroy Chiao (mentioned above). Ross was the veteran of seven space flights, with over 1,393 hours in space, including 58+ hours on nine EVAs (spacewalks). Chiao was on three space flights, from 1994 to 2000, with 26 EVAs and 36 days plus12.5 hours in space. He was the commander of Expedition 10 on the International Space Station (Oct. 9, 2004 to Apr. 24, 2005).
Many units of the production version of that 1-1/2" size coupling were used to connect the external Anhydrous Ammonia cooling system for the TRRJ (Thermal Radiator Rotary Joint built by Lockheed as a subcontractor to Boeing) during the initial construction phase of the Space Station. Without our product, the cooling lines could not be efficiently and safely connected by EVA-suited astronauts. Likewise without cooling, the Space Station cannot function! By the way, safety and reliability were key factors to its design since they cannot be easily serviced or replaced in space without sending up a shuttle mission at a cost of about $500 million per flight (cost in the early 2000's).
Butch with astronaut Clayton Anderson, who spent 167 days plus 38+ hours in space, including two space flights, six spacewalks, and 5 months aboard the ISS in 2007. He was on the crew of shuttle mission STS-131 in 2010.
Engineering Manager
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Aerospace Group / Stratoflex Division / CBU
3800 Calle Tecate
Camarillo, CA 93012-5070
Main Phone: (805) 484-8533 x7060
Direct Phone: (805) 419-7060
Fax: (805) 987-8958
Email: jalandy@parker.com
www.parker.com
360 Degree Panorama of the Shuttle Discovery's Flight Deck
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Subject: Note from Peggy Whitson
