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2 unusual facts about Flight Director


Astronautics Corporation of America

Astronautics major product lines include Electronic Flight Instrument System, Electronic flight bag, Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System, Network Server Systems, Multifunction Displays, Mission and display processors and systems, Flight director, Flight control system, Inertial guidance system, Air data computer, Integrated Network Server Unit and Auto pilot.

Flight director

Flight controller, a person who aids in the operations of a space flight


Chris-Craft

For the NASA flight director, see Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Gemini 4

:Flight Director Chris Kraft, to Grissom: The flight director says, get back in!

Mercury-Atlas 5

Flight Director Christopher Kraft alerted the Hawaii controllers to be ready to initiate retrofire to bring the spacecraft down in the Pacific, if necessary.


see also

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Houston, We've Got a Problem is a 1974 television film about the Apollo 13 spaceflight, directed by Lawrence Doheny and starring Ed Nelson in the role of NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz.

Jay Greene

He worked STS-3 and STS-4 as a backup flight director, learning the job by being paired with the experienced flight director Tommy Holloway and observing him at work.

NASA Academy

Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer at Planetary Resources, formerly Mars Exploration Rover Flight Director, and the first person to drive the MER rovers on Mars