Paul Dye retired from NASA in 2013 as a Lead Flight Director for Human Spaceflight after serving as flight Director for nearly 20 years on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. His forthcoming book, Shuttle Houston: My Life, in the Center Seat of Mission Control (Hachette Books, 2020), tells the stories of those years flying human beings in space, developing and executing missions to do science, deploy payloads, and build structures in space.
He will share these stories in his talk, bringing the audience inside the walls of MCC-Houston to learn just what it was like to be a part of the history of space exploration. From the deadly serious problems the teams faced to the humorous moments that the public might never hear about, the tales Dye tells are authentic views of spaceflight in the years after the moon landings, as NASA developed the capability to give mankind a permanent foothold in space.