Pat Norris was among
the programmers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission that sent Neil
Amstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the Moon.
A specialist in radar technology, Norris moved from London to
the US to work at TRW in Houston, Texas, providing ground based
navigation for the mission.
He worked for Nasa on six missions from Apollo 8 to Apollo 13
and received an award from Neil Armstrong after the Apollo 11
mission, for his work on the navigation calculations.
In this video Norris speaks to Cliff Saran about the work he did
for Nasa, the Apollo missions and his work on the Hubble space
telescope.
Norris has written a book following on from his experience of
the space programme,
"
Spies in the Sky", the story of how spy satellites prevented
nuclear armageddon during the Cold War.
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