LCROSS Flight Director's Blog
- May 2009
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First Week Rehearsal
May 27, 2009 04:18:42 AM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- The single best preparation for space mission operations is to practice whenever possible. The LCROSS Flight Team has been rehearsing various mission events for 14 months. But this week, we’ll hold the largest, most realistic and most difficult rehearsal in LCROSS development – the First Week Rehearsal.
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LCROSS Flight Team Breakdown
May 25, 2009 05:18:53 AM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- My last post contrasted flying LCROSS from flying an airplane, in touchy-feely terms, but now it’s time for some detail. This post provides describes the makeup and specific responsibilities of the Flight Team.
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Flying LCROSS vs. Flying a Plane
May 25, 2009 05:13:20 AM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- What is it like to “fly” a spacecraft? Is it anything like flying an airplane? For LCROSS, truthfully, no. In this post, I contrast flying a spacecraft with piloting, and flying LCROSS with flying spacecraft around other planets.
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Our last view of LCROSS
May 16, 2009 05:46:56 PM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- LCROSS and LRO were finally encapsulated in the Atlas V payload fairing. For most of us, it was the last time we'll see LCROSS.
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Correction
May 16, 2009 04:08:48 PM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- A couple of readers brought an error to my attention regarding the Atlas V engines.
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What is a Flight Director?
May 13, 2009 05:31:34 PM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- In my first post, I mentioned that I serve as the LCROSS Flight Team Lead and as one of two Flight Directors. So, what does that mean??
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Welcome
May 10, 2009 07:54:43 PM | Paul.D Tompkins
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- The first installment of the LCROSS Flight Blog
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