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    Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in such Mission Control Centers as NASA's Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space...
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    them as air controllers, or flight controllers, most air traffic professionals use the term air traffic controllers, ATCOs, or controllers. For a more...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    mapping, and personal enjoyment. In addition to the main Pixhawk flight controller model, there is also the APM 2.6 model. Pixhawk is an autopilot system...
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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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    route, the flight was placed in three holding patterns. Due to the air traffic controllers giving ultimately untrue delay estimations the flight became critically...
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    is part of the ground segment of spacecraft operations. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of the mission using...
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    (SBC). System hardware for small UAVs is often called the flight controller (FC), flight controller board (FCB) or autopilot. Common UAV-systems control hardware...
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  • speed and land the aircraft The onboard flight controller relies on GPS for navigation and stabilized flight, and often employ additional Satellite-based...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to...
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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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    Oscar Holmes (category Air traffic controllers)
    2001) was an American naval aviator in World War II and civilian flight controller, the first African-American in each position. Holmes graduated from...
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    the controller gave the flight a new heading.: 2  At 17:46:50, the controller cleared the flight direct to Blue Ridge and instructed the flight crew...
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    telemetered heading indicator in the control room, visible to the flight controller; and medically screen X-15 pilot candidates for labyrinth (vertigo)...
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    International Airport in the hopes of having Finneran taken off the flight. Controllers there refused permission since among the other passengers in first...
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