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

Mary Shafer wrote:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:31:26 GMT, "Roger Balettie"
wrote:

"Derek Lyons" wrote:
I notice that this set is missing pages... all of section 1 and 2-1
through 2-9 at least.

Jorge's answer is correct... this PDF (annoyingly) has the PCN updates
first, then the "full doc" afterwards. :/

And the flight annex (even more annoyingly) has a pen and ink, and a
PCN, and then the full doc.

D.
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"Mary Shafer" wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:31:26 GMT, "Roger Balettie"
wrote:

"Derek Lyons" wrote:
I notice that this set is missing pages... all of section 1 and 2-1
through 2-9 at least.

Jorge's answer is correct... this PDF (annoyingly) has the PCN updates
first, then the "full doc" afterwards. :/

That's to give everyone the thrill of updating their version. It's
especially fun when the update pages have the three holes slightly
mis-punched, so they hang up in the three-ring binder.

The *most* fun was the several PCNs where the front page of one PCN page and
the back page *were not contiguous page numbers*!!! (i.e., "page 4-1" was
on the front and "page 6-2" was on the back).

It required you to take the original and the PCN to the copy machine and
make your *OWN* two-sided copy of each of those updates... they got smart
after a few of those and made sure the original (non-updated) page was on
the opposite side of the *updated* page, so that the book actually remained
a book. g

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

"Roger Balettie" writes:

"Mary Shafer" wrote:

[...]

That's to give everyone the thrill of updating their version. It's
especially fun when the update pages have the three holes slightly
mis-punched, so they hang up in the three-ring binder.

Even if they're not mis-punched, they can be at a different height on
the page, so the update pages stick out (high or low, even left or
right).

The *most* fun was the several PCNs where the front page of one PCN page and
the back page *were not contiguous page numbers*!!! (i.e., "page 4-1" was
on the front and "page 6-2" was on the back).

I've also gotten updates where the pages were consecutive, but
"incorrect parity", i.e. instead of an odd page as the right hand page
and an even page as the left hand page, it had, e.g. page 4-2 backed by
page 4-3. Or you get a page 4-1.1, which you're supposed to put in
between 4-1 and 4-2, which, of course, are the front and back of one
sheet.

Roger Balettie said:
It required you to take the original and the PCN to the copy machine and
make your *OWN* two-sided copy of each of those updates... they got smart
after a few of those and made sure the original (non-updated) page was on
the opposite side of the *updated* page, so that the book actually remained
a book. g

Back in the era of Gemini, this may have made sense. But why *today*
isn't there just a new update of the entire document? No need to even
print it, just use the electronic form.
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

We'd spend the remaining time trying to fix the engine.
-- Neil Armstrong

"Herb Schaltegger" wrote:
In article ,
Kevin Willoughby wrote:

Roger Balettie said:
It required you to take the original and the PCN to the copy machine
and
make your *OWN* two-sided copy of each of those updates... they got
smart
after a few of those and made sure the original (non-updated) page was
on
the opposite side of the *updated* page, so that the book actually
remained
a book. g

Back in the era of Gemini, this may have made sense. But why *today*
isn't there just a new update of the entire document? No need to even
print it, just use the electronic form.

Video screens are not conducive to rapid scanning through a document and
offer nowhere near the visual resolution of printed material - hence the
need for paper copies. Plus, power failures, system glitches and
software crashes always seem to happen at inopportune times. Until
those are issues are all eliminated, paper copies will remain the norm.

And... different Flight Controllers had different organizational methods.
Some used tabs in their Rules book to help them find the appropriate
sections quickly... others had hand-written notes or highlighted sections...

All of these are somewhat tough to do in a single on-line copy.

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