Special Program November 6 | Lincoln EAA Chapter 1541

Shuttle, Houston: Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control

On Saturday, November 6 chapter 1541 will host a special event at our EAA hangar at Lincoln Regional Airport (KLHM). Our visiting presenter will be Paul Dye, editor of Kitplanes magazine, who retired in 2013 as the longest-serving NASA flight director in history. In his career at NASA, was involved in 39 missions, including nine as the lead flight director.

As flight director, he planned, directed and controlled the activities of the space shuttle team. His missions included both the first trip to the fully assembled Mir space station in 1996 (STS-79) and the last docking of a space shuttle at Mir in 1998 (STS-91). Paul has written about his experiences in a highly rated book available on Amazon. He will talk about talk about what it took to fly the shuttle, and how a life in aviation informed flying the shuttle… and vice versa.

Our event will begin at 0800 at the EAA hangar (S-12, KLHM) with coffee and donuts.

Our speaker will be arriving at 0900. Paul will be traveling from his home at Dayton Airpark in Dayton, Nevada and if weather permits, he will be flying here in his SubSonex jet. His presentation will begin at 10:00 a.m., after which we will be having a BBQ lunch at the hangar.

Don’t miss this special chapter event on Saturday, November 6th!