For perspective, I have worked decades as an engineer with NASA as my ultimate customer, most recently assembling and operating the International Space Station. In all that time I had only one occasion to get into one of the Building 30’s mission control rooms, and it was during a Shuttle mission but nothing dramatic was going on. So it’s really true that you need an insider like the author of this book to know what goes on in that building. I have also been on the comm nets during Shuttle missions, just listening. This book satisfyingly expands on those memories and lets us in on the real drama that usually develops when you’re trying to accomplish brand-new difficult things like spaceflight.
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Extremely valuable space history!
It is no exaggeration that Marianne Dyson has produced an historically significant document with “Space Shuttle Mission Control: Flight Controller Stories and Photos, 1981-1992.” She has preserved space history that would have been lost forever! As soon as I saw this book was published, I ordered it. I was at NASA-Johnson Space Center supporting several of the missions she wrote about. I was there so this is personal! I write my own stories, but I needed the details she provided since I wasn’t a space shuttle flight controller. I worked with them on console intermittently as software engineering support, so I didn’t have the complete picture. Dyson was a certified flight controller and was in the middle of history. She is also space history and an excellent writer to convey a highly technical subject into human stories. I cannot praise this book enough!
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It is no exaggeration that Marianne Dyson has produced an historically significant document with “Space Shuttle Mission Control: Flight Controller Stories and Photos, 1981-1992.” She has preserved space history that would have been lost forever! As soon as I saw this book was published, I ordered it. I was at NASA-Johnson Space Center supporting several of the missions she wrote about. I was there so this is personal! I write my own stories, but I needed the details she provided since I wasn’t a space shuttle flight controller. I worked with them on console intermittently as software engineering support, so I didn’t have the complete picture. Dyson was a certified flight controller and was in the middle of history. She is also space history and an excellent writer to convey a highly technical subject into human stories. I cannot praise this book enough!
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