Shuttle, Houston : my life in the center seat of Mission Control
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
629.4092/DYE,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Hachette Books, 2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316454575, 0316454575 :, 9780316454575
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Prelude--the last time -- The most complex flying machine ever built -- Spaceflight -- Being a flight controller -- Selection -- Becoming flight -- Plan, train, flying -- Shuttle Mir -- The mast -- Life in Mission Control -- Return to flight -- Thirty year learning curve -- Leadership in a high-risk business
"In the tradition of Chris Kraft's Flight and Gene Kranz's Failure Is Not an Option, from the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's history, a revealing look at the high-stakes work of Mission Control that tells the inside story of the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with space"--