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- Enjoying an overdue visit with my father and my son http://t.co/UvZuMVJunu 2 days ago
- Beautiful day for a road trip across Texas. I've got shotgun keeping watch for the comanch 3 days ago
- Ad Astra ready to test fire their 200KW electric VASIMR rocket for 100 hours continuously. Planning to install it on ISS in a few years 4 days ago
- At the JSC-NAL dinner listening to Dr Franklin Chang Diaz discuss advanced space propulsion and his VASIMR rocket 4 days ago
- So glad it's cooled off in Houston. Ran the A/C all day yesterday due to temps above 80. Nice cool breeze today! 6 days ago
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Peeking Behind the Curtain
When I worked for the government, I never really understood what industry was doing; it was all behind a curtain. They gave only glimpses of what they wanted the government to see. Those of us in the civil services always … Continue reading
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February first, again
No matter what is going on with the world, no matter what is happening in my life, when the calendar turns to February 1 I have to stop, remember, and rededicate. This year we have another gold star on the … Continue reading
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Space Thanksgiving
Today is the day in America that we set aside to count our blessings and give thanks for all the good that is in our lives. So I will set aside my curmudgeonly ways and ignore the future and all … Continue reading
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Unfamiliar Terms
During the summer of 2009, we were working on the history book about the Space Shuttle, ‘Wings in Orbit’. We had hired three summer interns, college students, to help with the book. Their primary assignments were to build the appendices, … Continue reading
Significant Conversations
Just about exactly 10 years ago I was serving as the Deputy Program Manager for the Space Shuttle Program. Columbia had been lost a year and a half earlier and we were all trying our best to return the Space … Continue reading
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STS-93: We don’t need any more of those
It was about a quarter past midnight on July 23, 1999 when the Ralph Roe, the Shuttle Launch Director, told Eileen’s crew that they were go for launch and wished them good luck. The launch, which had been scrubbed late … Continue reading
Practicing for Disaster
Even though we sometimes hated them, the training teams that prepared mission control and the astronauts for every flight are real heroes. Without their efforts, all of us flight controllers would have believed we knew everything there was to know … Continue reading
