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Topic: TJ Creamer named first astronaut-turned-Flight
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-22-2015 09:06 AM
   
collectSPACE From flight crew to Flight: NASA names its first astronaut-turned-flight directorTimothy "TJ" Creamer, who this week joined the ranks of Christopher Kraft, Eugene Kranz and Glynn Lunney as one of NASA's flight directors, is no stranger to Mission Control. Over the course of his 20-year career at NASA, Creamer has been certified as a capsule communicator, "capcom" — the flight controller that relays commands to the crew members in space — and for four years, led the team that coordinates science operations on the International Space Station as the payload operations director at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. And, oh yes, he also worked closely with Mission Control during his 161 days living onboard the space station as an Expedition 22/23 flight engineer in 2010. Creamer is the first-ever astronaut-turned-flight director in the more than 50 years NASA has been assigning people to fly into space and others to oversee their missions from the ground.  |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-22-2015 08:40 PM
Congrats TJ! |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-03-2016 04:10 PM
What an achievement, absolutely brilliant. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 07-07-2016 02:10 PM
He can be seen in the current NASA live TV feed of the ISS Mission Control Center shadowing the Flight Director on duty as he is in the final weeks of his training. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 08-16-2016 05:37 PM
TJ Creamer officially announced his call sign today and is the 88th Flight Director. His call sign: "Saber Flight." I had the pleasure to help TJ design his FD emblem. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-16-2016 06:11 PM
From Royce Renfrew (Tungsten Flight) on Twitter: Congratulations to @Astro_TJ on his first shift on console as a certified ISS Flight Director! #Saber  |
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