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…
https://youtu.be/RzKio9DWJpw Ironflight explains that the front room in Mission Control is a team and that the Flight Director isn’t a…
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https://youtu.be/IVePEO-6fUo Ironflight suggest that flight controllers learn to explain their field of expertise in clear and non-jargon-filled language as the…
https://youtu.be/7zSQhiBd8kk Ironflight advices flight controllers on how to best communicate with their flight director. This very short video is part…
https://youtu.be/mtPOPKOdyIc Ironflight muses on how the best flight controllers time their reports to the flight director concerning an arising problem.…