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My Last Day as a FDO
My last FDO Console Log Book entries
Reflections on my career as a FDO
STS-76: Letters from the Lead FDO
Mission Control
Mission Control Center
What is the FDO looking at?
The Flight Controller’s Creed
Logos in Mission Control
Mission Control – 50 years
Atomic Fireballs
Space Shuttle Worldwide Landing Sites
STS-109 re-entry photos
Tributes and Essays
Remembering Discovery
The Cathedral
“We Came Here, You and I…”
Icarus Rising
30 years on: Lessons from Challenger
Remembrance
Why have a space program?
The BIG Picture (by John Young)
If you can’t be good, be colorful
High Flight
Space exploration is ‘destiny’
Mir Space Station Website – Interview
Correcting some misconceptions…
Space- and NASA-related blog entries
Tango Delta
Words on a Chalkboard
Apollo 11: What We Saw
Incremental Successes
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Random Ramjet Ramblings
Last four blog posts
Tango Delta
A new adventure on the red planet has begun.
Words on a Chalkboard
35 years ago, I saw two faded words on a chalkboard. They influenced the rest of my NASA career.
Pumpkin Princess
Grandpa's Little Princess is almost one and got to experience her first fall Pumpkin Patch!
Apollo 11: What We Saw
Repost of Bill Whittle's fantastic "Apollo 11: What We Saw" video series.
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