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    Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in mission control centers such as NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center...
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    standardized understandable terminology for pilots and controllers for minimum and emergency fuel states. The flight left Medellín with more than enough fuel for...
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    Pixhawk (category Flight control systems)
    standards for the flight controller hardware that can be installed on various unmanned aerial vehicles. Additionally, any flight controller built to the open...
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  • Flight controller, a person who aids in the operations of a space flight A civil-airliner flight controller, or autopilot An UAV flight controller, a combination...
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    the SRB into the tank. The crew and flight controllers made no indication they were aware of the vehicle and flight anomalies. At T+68, the CAPCOM, Richard...
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    attempted to contact the ground controller Borodaenko but received no response. He subsequently contacted the flight controller Boris Ishalov on internal radio...
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  • This list describe NASA's flight controllers, primarily at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, but also associated positions at other organizations...
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    Any time the boat touches the water is considered a mistake by the flight controller. They work closely with the driver and wing trimmer to ensure the...
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    Seymour Liebergot (category NASA flight controllers)
    New Jersey) is a retired NASA flight controller, serving during the Apollo program. Liebergot was an EECOM controller and was responsible for the electrical...
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    at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As Flight 1493 was on final approach, the local controller was distracted, though air traffic was not heavy...
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  • technically accurate movie, employing NASA's assistance in astronaut and flight-controller training for his cast and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard...
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    system. In 1978, she joined NASA as a flight controller / payload officer, and was a guidance and navigation controller for Skylab during its de-orbiting...
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  • REFSMMAT is a term used by guidance, navigation, and control system flight controllers during the Apollo program, which carried over into the Space Shuttle...
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  • pilot monitoring who primarily communicated with air traffic controllers. He had 968 flight hours, with 300 on the UH-60.: 3  Staff Sergeant Ryan O'Hara...
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    Backdraft (1991), Lou in Parenthood, Flynn in Far and Away (1992), flight controller Seymour Liebergot in Apollo 13 (1995), Ken in EDtv (1999), Whobris...
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    Modern system hardware for UAV control is often called the flight controller (FC), flight controller board (FCB) or autopilot. Common UAV-systems control hardware...
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    and was the first Flight Director. The MCC currently houses one operational control room in Building 30 from which flight controllers command, monitor...
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    designed by Kraft and now named for him. In Mission Control, each flight controller, in addition to monitoring telemetry from the spacecraft, was in communication...
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    John Aaron (category NASA flight controllers)
    John W. Aaron (born 1943) is a former NASA engineer and was a flight controller during the Apollo program. He is widely credited with saving the Apollo...
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    hand-gesture control. In addition to a smartphone app with a virtual controller, a physical controller can also be bought. There have been multiple complaints that...
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    American Airlines Flight 11 had been hijacked six minutes earlier. Shortly after Flight 77 became airborne, FAA flight controller Danielle O'Brien made...
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    warranted the speed assignment after the controller cleared the flight to descend to 3,000 feet (910 m), but the controller did not verbally cancel the speed...
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    After a brief exchange, the controller gave the flight a new heading.: 2  At 17:46:50, the controller cleared the flight direct to Blue Ridge and instructed...
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  • designed by Erle Robotics. Intel Minnowboard (Linux Base). Navigator Flight Controller by Blue Robotics Navio2 and Navio+ (Raspberry Pi Linux based), designed...
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    Steve Bales (category NASA flight controllers)
    Steve Bales (born October 7, 1942) is a former NASA engineer and flight controller. He is best known for his role during the Apollo 11 lunar landing....
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    Gene Kranz (category NASA flight controllers)
    Kranz, but another member of the Apollo 13 mission control crew, FDO Flight Controller Jerry Bostick. According to Bostick: As far as the expression 'Failure...
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    traveling farthest from Earth. Menon previously worked as a biomedical flight controller at NASA for six years, overseeing operations at the International...
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  • wife, a physics professor Eve Myles as Alice Sinclair, an air traffic controller Archie Panjabi as DCI Zahra Gahfoor, O'Farrel's former partner and a member...
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    crew and the controller. Switzerland notes that the Tupolev was about 33 m (108 ft) below the flight level ordered by the Swiss controller, and still descending...
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    Linda Ham (category NASA flight controllers)
    by NASA. Ham's first position at NASA was as a propulsion systems flight controller at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. This was...
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