Is Chris Kraft's "mission rules" book available somewhere?

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?

"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/

Thank you very much for that pointer! I looked at it today and it was
extremely interesting. Do you believe there are publicly available archived
versions of this document as it stood in 1970 or so?

Thank you again.

Roger Balettie wrote:

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

"Roger Balettie" wrote:
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!)

I notice that this set is missing pages... 2-1 through 2-9 at least.

What are the other volumes of the set?

D.
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