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A Badge on the Table Moment

October 17, 2018 paulfdye

With a cable outage plaguing our neighborhood the other night, I decided to throw in a DVD and watch The…

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

Last Shift

May 8, 2018 paulfdye 1 Comment

The last Space Shuttle shift for the Iron Team was the night before entry of STS-135. The crew would wake…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Flight Director, Mission Control, NASA, Shuttle Flight control center, Space Shuttle, STS-135

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

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

Flight Director Hall of Fame — Space Shuttle

April 20, 2017 paulfdye

How Did Flight Directors keep score?   They use Hale Points!   These are the history files of all the…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Flight Director, NASA, Points, Records, Space Shuttle, Wayne Hale

Flight is Not God

March 7, 2017 paulfdye

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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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Communication, Flight Controller, NASA, Training

Fast Talk When Stresssed

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https://youtu.be/zHbwmy_p2pg    

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Communication, Flight Controller, NASA, Training

Explaining Your Call

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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…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Communication, Flight Controller, NASA, Training

Tell Flight the Time You Need

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https://youtu.be/7zSQhiBd8kk Ironflight advices flight controllers on how to best communicate with their flight director. This very short video is part…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Communication, Flight Controller, NASA, Training

Don’t Rush into Bad Comm

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https://youtu.be/mtPOPKOdyIc Ironflight muses on how the best flight controllers time their reports to the flight director concerning an arising problem.…

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Posted in: NASA Shuttle Flight Director Memories Filed under: Communication, Flight Controller, NASA, Training

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