Federal Judges Dolores K. Sloviter,
Ronald L. Buckwalter and Stewart Dalzell,
striking down portions of the CDA on 6-12-96
Between September 1991 and October 1995, I worked as a flight controller in Mission Control for
11 launches. My position was called "Targeting" (that's my position nameplate below, rescued from
the old MCC before they tore it down in 1996), and I was responsible for expert support to the
Flight Dynamics Officer (FDO) during shuttle ascents. I wrote up an account of what
it was like to sit on console for one of those launches (STS-63 in Feb. 1995): the first
shuttle flyby of the Russian Space Station Mir.
This page was the recipient of a "sunglasses"
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Since October 1995, I have been working at the second coolest job in the world: I train astronauts
how to operate the space shuttle. The coolest job, of course, is being an astronaut. My role in training is teaching astronauts, flight controllers, and other instructors about the various shuttle systems; thus, I'm called the Systems instructor. More specifically, I train the shuttle's Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS), Electrical Power Systems (EPS), Auxiliary Power Unit (APU)/ Hydraulic systems, Mechanical (Payload Bay Doors and Landing Gear) Systems, and Caution & Warning System. In the 4 years I've been working here, I have been fortunate enough to have been associated with four great crews: |
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Mission Info from KSC Payload info: Additional info: |
Mission Info from KSC Payload info: Additional info: |
Mission Info from KSC, and JSC's Shuttle Web Payload info: Additional info: |
Mission Info from KSC Payload info:
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Also please take a look at the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list for the sci.space.shuttle newsgroup.
APOLLO 13: there are plenty of accounts of what happened to the Apollo 13 mission -- what went wrong, how they got the astronauts back -- but did you know that Grumman (maker of the LM) sent a bill for over $312,000 to North American Rockwell (maker of the command and service module) when it was all over, for towing charges? Yes, it was a joke, but see a (bad) scan of the invoice and an accompanying newspaper article from Saturday, April 18, 1970.
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