menu
HOME
TRAVEL
PHOTOS
SPACE
-THE TRENCH- the space advocacy website of former Flight Dynamics Officer Roger Balettie
Flight Dynamics Officer
What is a Flight Dynamics Officer?
– Ascent
– Orbit
– Entry
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
Apollo 11: What We Saw
Incremental Successes
Demanding Situations
If you can’t be good, be colorful
Close
BLOG
Random Ramjet Ramblings
Last four blog posts
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.
Incremental Successes
Another historic day in United States Human Spaceflight with the launch of SpaceX Crew Dragon on the DM-2 mission.
Demanding Situations
Apollo 13 was more than just a "successful failure".
Close
CONTACT
-photos.balettie.com-
Home
Travel Journals
Photo Albums
Space Exploration
Mission Control
Blog
Contact
× Close Panel