With a cable outage plaguing our neighborhood the other night, I decided to throw in a DVD and watch The…
The last Space Shuttle shift for the Iron Team was the night before entry of STS-135. The crew would wake…
I just finished reading a fascinating book that I learned of during a telephone interview with a PhD candidate in…
A week in Houston to do some flying gave me a chance to visit JSC for a few hours. In…
How Did Flight Directors keep score? They use Hale Points! These are the history files of all the…
Ironflight explains that the front room in Mission Control is a team and that the Flight Director isn’t a god…
Ironflight suggest that flight controllers learn to explain their field of expertise in clear and non-jargon-filled language as the folks…
Ironflight advices flight controllers on how to best communicate with their flight director. This very short video is part of…
Ironflight muses on how the best flight controllers time their reports to the flight director concerning an arising problem. This…