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2025 2

  1. Into the Memory Hole
  2. Reflections on a Pilgrimage

2024 6

  1. All eggs, One basket
  2. Flight Rationale
  3. Breaking the [Flight] Rules
  4. Putting Atlantis At Risk
  5. Terminal Count
  6. The Most Important Thing

2023 5

  1. Flight Delay
  2. Protecting the Bird Sanctuary
  3. Reading the Pads
  4. Due Consideration
  5. Lessons not to be forgotten

2022 3

  1. The View from Mt. Nebo
  2. Wars and Rumors of Wars
  3. Flying New Spacecraft

2021 4

  1. Reading List 2021 into 2022
  2. STS-108
  3. Everything I Know About Orbital Debris – Almost
  4. Main Engine Controllers

2020 3

  1. Exploding Stovepipes
  2. The Changing of the Guard
  3. Will the World Go Back to Normal?

2019 14

  1. Tracking Down Ghosts
  2. What Figure Did You Have In Mind?
  3. Definition of Terms
  4. Oops
  5. Night Flying
  6. Calculating the Risk
  7. Finding Meaning in Apollo
  8. STS-121 The Hardest Launch Part 5: What Can We Learn?
  9. STS-121 The Hardest Launch Part 4: Damage to the Heatshield
  10. Blood and Money
  11. Advising NASA
  12. STS-121: The Hardest Launch – Part 3 Wing Leading Edge
  13. Miracle Workers
  14. Launch Fever

2018 4

  1. Careful What You Ask For
  2. STS-121: The Hardest Launch: Part 2 – Electrical Problems
  3. Memory Overload
  4. Fifteen Years

2017 9

  1. Game Changing Technology
  2. STS-121: The Hardest Launch – part 1
  3. Administrivia
  4. Waivers, Deviations, and Exceptions
  5. Blame it on Oliver Cromwell
  6. King for a Day
  7. Flying with the Window Shades Down
  8. The Triumph of the Flexible Path
  9. The Road Not Taken

2016 6

  1. Auld Lang Syne
  2. Accident Investigations
  3. Running for President
  4. Gravity
  5. Test Like You Fly
  6. Remembrance is Not Enough

2015 8

  1. Messy Accidents
  2. The Ancient and Honorables
  3. Von Braun Symposium speech Oct. 29, 2015
  4. How to Avoid Train Wrecks
  5. Specific Plans
  6. Pilot Error is Never Root Cause
  7. Peeking Behind the Curtain
  8. February first, again

2014 12

  1. Space Thanksgiving
  2. Unfamiliar Terms
  3. Significant Conversations
  4. STS-93: We don’t need any more of those
  5. Practicing for Disaster
  6. STS-93: Dualing computers
  7. STS-93: Dodging Golden Bullets
  8. Understanding STS-93: the key is Mixture Ratio
  9. O Columbia
  10. Manifest Destiny or Pipe Dream?
  11. Risk Tolerance
  12. Finding Columbia

2013 16

  1. Keeping Eileen on the Ground: Part II – or – How I Got Launch Fever
  2. STS-93: Keeping Eileen on the Ground, Part 1
  3. Von Braun Symposium
  4. STS-93 and the Flight Director Office
  5. Monuments and Birthdays
  6. For the Record
  7. Making a Difference
  8. Breaking a Rule
  9. Checking In
  10. After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons
  11. After Ten Years: Picking Up the Pieces
  12. After Ten Years: The Moment of Truth
  13. After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problem
  14. After Ten Years: Too Little, Too Late
  15. After Ten Years: Death Never Takes a Holiday
  16. After Ten Years: Counting Down to Disaster

2012 19

  1. After Ten Years: the Fateful FRR
  2. After Ten Years: STS-113, the Calm before the Storm
  3. Ten Years After Columbia: STS-112, the Harbinger
  4. After Ten Years: A Few Words from Admiral Gehman
  5. After Ten Years: Flying A Mature Vehicle – Or Not
  6. Ten Years After Columbia: Pennywise and Pound Foolish
  7. After Ten Years: The Tyranny of Requirements
  8. Ten Years After Columbia: Balancing Work and Life
  9. Ten Years After Columbia: Balancing Life and Work
  10. After Ten Years – Dramatis Personae Part 1
  11. After Ten Years – Why Write Now?
  12. Ground Up Rendezvous
  13. JFM to the rescue
  14. How We Nearly Lost Discovery
  15. Construction of Facilities
  16. A Few Word About This Picture
  17. Living West of the 100th Meridian
  18. What Would Rick and Gus and Dick Want?
  19. Whither America’s Human Space Program?

2011 16

  1. Requirements
  2. Standards
  3. Murphy Strikes
  4. The School of Hard Knocks
  5. The Future Of NASA
  6. Applying Aerospace to Energy
  7. We shall overcome, some day
  8. After the Barn Burned Down
  9. Ringing Handbells
  10. TANSTAAFL
  11. Why Houston Did Not Get A Shuttle
  12. A Not-So-Simple Truth
  13. Breaking Through
  14. Memory Fault
  15. Space Architecture
  16. Certifying Soyuz

2010 11

  1. Learning About Leadership
  2. Abort Request Command
  3. Trying to clean up a mess
  4. Inspiring the public and ourselves
  5. The coming train wreck for Commercial Human Spaceflight
  6. Veteran’s Day
  7. Perspective
  8. Chasing Augustine
  9. Until the Fat Lady Sings
  10. Amazing Response!
  11. Killing Constellation