OV-102 and me

OV-102 and me

OV-102 and me In April of 1995, while working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as a Flight Dynamics Officer, the Space Shuttle Columbia made an overnight stop at Ellington AFB, just down the road from JSC. Columbia had undergone a planned nearly year-long Orbiter...
BVI 2016 videos

BVI 2016 videos

I finally got around to making videos from our recent trip to the British Virgin Islands (BVI). All of those photos can be found here. Here are the three videos I made. Enjoy. ? Roger BalettieHusband, Father, Grandfather, Space Cadet, techno-geek…...
30 years on: Lessons from Challenger

30 years on: Lessons from Challenger

30 years on: Lessons from Challenger 30 years on: Lessons from Challenger It’s hard to believe that it was 30 years ago, on January 28, 1986, that the crew of STS-51L were lost on a cold winter morning as the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed from an...