Wayne Hale’s NASA Blog: Old Flight Director War Stories
“Right now, by popular demand, I thought I’d tell a story about what happened to me when I was a brand new shuttle Flight Director. It sorta ties into some of last week’s blog and I promise it won’t be pithy or pontificate . . . It was a DoD flight, we still can’t talk about the payload or what we accomplished, but it was my first flight and it was a high inclination flight when most of the early shuttle flights had been low inclination. High inclination means the orbit goes further north and south than usual, “inclination” being the technical term for the angle at which the orbit crosses the equator which is equivalent to the highest latitude (north or south) that the orbit reaches.”
