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NASA introduces new class of flight directors FacebookTwitterEmail NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control White Flight Control Room on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer NASA has selected four new flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, the agency announced. These individuals join an elite group of 101 people who have worked in Houstons Mission Control Center leading flight controllers, engineers...

>> go ahead. >> have your people plotted pressure in that bottle vs. time? can we take a look at it? >> i dont think theyve got it yet. >> how about giving me a call when that comes up. wed like to take a look at it on one of the screens. >> roger. >> good morning again. >> roger, 11. good morning. your systems are looking good from down here. >> looks good up here, too. >> deke slayton director of flight operation and two members of the back up crew have joined bruce mccandles at the cab concon...

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Recovery efforts are underway right now at the site of a plane crash near moscow. and we are learning there are no survivors. the passenger jet disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from moscows airport, headed for southern russia. there were 65 passengers and 6 crew members onboard. a flight data recorder has now been found in the area where the plane went down. russian president vladimir putin has sent out condolences to the families of the victims and promised an investigation. i wa...

Happened. they lost communications and they were heading back to the airport and the pilot says to the co-pilot, get on your cell phone because we cant go flying into malaysia at night as an unidentified aircraft and see if we cant get some communications. im going to go down to 5,000 feet so you have a chance. you can think of a benign one and lots of nefarious ones too. its a mystery without a final page. >> mm-hm. i want to go to a pilot now. tim tillman. we discussed this in the very beginni...

Time. how long did it take you to get to him? >> well, when the call went up, we were in the middle of flight operation supporting the odyssey dawn efforts, and the crew and our maintenance department turned all the planes around, got em respotted. we launched the jets and a few moments later after some mission planning, we launched the v-22s. came in fairly low and fast into the area where the survivor was. the whole time we were there the jets overhead were giving us updates as far as location...