posted 03-27-2025 09:00 AM               

Mission Control 'members only': NASA flight directors don new jacket

There are fewer of them then there are astronauts and no NASA spaceflight would be a success without them at the helm. Yet, if the public knows anything about them it is likely 50-year-old history, and probably none of them could be picked out of a crowd today.

To address that last point, NASA's flight directors have taken a page from the crews they support, if not also the Masters Tournament, Hells Angels and even Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club.

There is now a flight director's jacket.