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Alan Hochstein

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 2, 2013
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Reader note: “Alan Hochstein, longtime Shuttle Approach & Landing expert passed away today. He may not have been a major figure like Kraft, et. Al. But ask the astronauts about Hochstein. They had a very healthy respect for his critiques. Wayne Hale refers to him in his blog.” Alan Worked for Rockwell International and received a Silver Snoopy in 1992.
Wayne Hale’s Blog: Hochstein’s Law
“Alan was the senior landing analyst. That means he studied more and worked harder than anyone to understand how the shuttle flies – especially in the final approach and landing phase. One part of Alan’s job was to analyze the telemetry from each shuttle landing and see how that compared to the “ideal” landing. So in a quiet office environment over a couple of weeks, Alan and his team would look at each telemetry point, every sample (up to 125 per second for some parameters) and compute how each one affected the landing.”

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2 responses to “Alan Hochstein”

  1. Denniswingo says:
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    Read Wayne Hale’s blog on him. Sounds like my kind of guy!

    As they say, “D Cow jumps over D Moon D feet before D tail”

  2. delta_v82 says:
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    My first job out of college at McDonnell Douglas Technical Services in 1982 was working Glide Return to Launch Site (GRTLS) and Alan was already an established guru in Autoland back then. No Shuttle crews ever flew an Autoland but he knew how the Orbiter was supposed to land so it makes perfect sense that he was respected by the crews for his opinions on their landing skills. He was a good man in the brief time I knew him and definitely one of the unsung heroes of the Space Shuttle Program.