around the horn - retro

Jud McCranie wrote:
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 03:21:44 GMT, "Roger Balettie"
wrote:


RETRO was an Apollo-era (and before) Flight Control position, responsible
for the deorbit maneuver or deorbit targeting computations and subsequent
required crew actions.

There is not a RETRO position in the Shuttle MCC today. That responsibility
has been rolled into the Flight Dynamics Officer (FDO) position.


Thanks for the info. I've heard "retro - go! FiDO - go! Guidance -
go!" quite a few times.

Is the "going around the horn" more a psychological thing or a
technically neccessarly thing? As soon as something happens, the
responsible controller would have told the FD. As long as the FD doesn't
gets anything from the controllers, everything is "go".

Was there ever a going around the horn like "retro? go! fido? go! guido?
go! eecom? no-go! telmu? eeerrr???? eecom? what was that?"