"Bar Code" wrote:
In his book "Flight - My Life in Mission Control" Chris Kraft keeps
refering to a mission rules/procedure book - one of the two bibles of
mission control (the other being the book of schematics). Is this book
available anywhere?

Chris is referring to the Flight Rules. It's not a book that you can get at
Barnes & Noble, it's a "living document" that is maintained by the Mission
Operations Directorate at JSC for use *exclusively* by Flight Controllers in
the Mission Control Center.

Up until FOIA requests after Columbia's demise, it was absolutely excluded
from Internet distribution.

Now, if you go here (http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/foia/index.html), you can
find both the last "generic" set and the "flight-specific" set:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/columbia/fr_generic.pdf (5.4MB PDF file!)
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/columbia/fr_sts107.pdf (2.7MB PDF file!)

Roger
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Roger Balettie
former Flight Dynamics Officer
Space Shuttle Mission Control
http://www.balettie.com/