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Category: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories

Digital Apollo – Thoughts on Automation

March 24, 2018 paulfdye 2 Comments

I just finished reading a fascinating book that I learned of during a telephone interview with a PhD candidate in…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo, David A. Mindell, Draper Labs, fly-by-wire, man/machine interface, Mission Control, MIT, NASA, Space Shuttle

Memories of the Master……

January 8, 2018 paulfdye 3 Comments

John Young was a genuine hero, but he was as down to earth as they come. John never paid much…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Astronaut, John Young, STS-1, Tribute

Critical Burn

December 26, 2017 paulfdye 1 Comment

It’s hard to go through Christmas without seeing at least one reference to Apollo 8, the mission that first flew…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo 13, Apollo 8, CAPCOM, Trans-Earth Insertion

COMMERCIAL SPACE

December 21, 2017 paulfdye

One of the most common questions I get from people I meet who find out I am retired from NASA…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Commercial space, Space flight, SpaceEx

Editor’s Log: You don’t have to go

November 28, 2017 paulfdye 1 Comment

On November 14, 1969, humankind’s second journey to land on the moon lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on…

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Posted in: KITPLANES and General Aviation, NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo 12, Decision making, Flight Controller, Flight Director, Go-No Go, Mission Control, Operational leadership, Preparedness, Weather

Reminiscing….

October 19, 2017 paulfdye

A week in Houston to do some flying gave me a chance to visit JSC for a few hours. In…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Mission Control, NASA, Simulator, Space Shuttle

Teaching Leadership

September 20, 2017 paulfdye

I recently finished reading From the Mission Control Room to the Board Room a new book from retired Flight Director…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Flight Director, Mission Control, Operational leadership, Shuttle Flight control center

Pressure Suit Memories

June 15, 2017 paulfdye

While looking through the exhibits at the Blackbird Society’s Biennial reunion, held this year at the Nugget in Reno, I…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Blackbird, Dennis Gilliam, Flight suits, SR-71

Birds of a Feather

June 12, 2017 paulfdye

Louise and I had the privilege of being invited to attend the biennial Blackbird Society Reunion dinner last Saturday night.…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Blackbird, retire, reunion, SR-71

My Mentors…..

April 22, 2017 paulfdye 1 Comment

I just finished watching the new Documentary movie Mission Control, and it transported me back to my roots so cleanly…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Apollo, Chris Kraft, Flight Director, Gene Kranz, Mission Control, Operational leadership

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