flight director

“During missions these were always aimed at the CAPCOM and flight director positions.”

Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

“Like Abbey, Don had gotten his start at NASA as an MCC controller in the Apollo program and ultimately served as a flight director forApollo 16.”

Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

““I did not see Neil argue,” remembers NASA mission flight director Eugene Kranz.”

Simon & Schuster: First Man

“CAPCOMs, our leader explained, would work hand in glove with the flight director to make sure mission crews got the exact information they needed, nothing more and nothing less.”

Simon & Schuster: Riding Rockets

“After the Gemini VII/VI missions, Chris Kraft had reluctantly turned over his duties as flight director in Mission Control to John Hodge and Gene Kranz, men he had trained, so that he could focus on the upcoming Apollo flights.”

Simon & Schuster: First Man

“This was the plainspoken and impossible-to-mistake terminology used by the flight director in a final systems check to make sure that his controllers were confident about proceeding on to the next phase of the mission.”

Simon & Schuster: First Man