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Author Dye, Paul (Paul F.), author.

Title Shuttle, Houston : my life in the center seat of Mission Control / Paul Dye.

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2020.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  629.4092 DYE    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B DYE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-DYE, P.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Dye, Paul (Paul F.)
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Flight Operations Directorate -- History.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History.
Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) -- History.
Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Astronautics -- United States -- History.
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. (OCoLC)fst00530680
Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00563585
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (OCoLC)fst00528469
Aerospace engineers. (OCoLC)fst00798629
Astronautics. (OCoLC)fst00819505
Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780316454575 (hardcover)
0316454575 (hardcover)
9780316454544 (ebook)
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