Shuttlefest I - Part 7) Launch Directors Bob Sieck, Jim Harrington, and Mike Leinbach

(Launch Directors Jim Harrington, Bob Sieck, Mike Leinbach introduced at 02:10)
ASM and the Astronaut Memorial Foundation hosted the first annual "Shuttlefest" on April 16, 2022 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Space Shuttle financing approval by Congress in April 1972. This public event featured 7 live presentations available here as a 7 part series.

Host: Mark Marquette of the American Space Museum.
Master of Ceremonies: Hugh Harris, NASA’s Public Affairs Office since 1963, and third PAO director 1992-1998.
Location: "Hyatt Place Titusville / Kennedy Space Center" Hotel.

EACH OF THE FOLLOWING 7 PRESENTATIONS IS A SEPARATE VIDEO...

THIS VIDEO: Part 7) Launch Directors Jim Harrington, Bob Sieck, and Mike Leinbach...
... They launched 111 of the 135 Space Shuttle missions (82%), defining a career that had no job description–or no equal for pressure and accountability.

CHAPTERS...
00:00 General Intro by Mark Marquette
02:10 Hugh Harris Introduces Launch Directors Bob Sieck, Jim Harrington, Mike Leinbach
03:47 Bob Sieck
12:30 Jim Harrington
27:15 Mike Leinbach

COMPLETE PRESENTATION LIST...

Part 1) Intro then Art Edwards on the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator Arm...
... Edwards went from the only African-American in the April 12, 1981 Launch Control Room to become a remote arm lead United Space Alliance safety director.

Part 2) Jean Wright on the Thermal Protection System & Terry White, Orbital Process Facility manager...
... Shuttle thermal blanket “Sew Sister” Jean Wright’s work was always right and it had to be right, or OPF manager Terry White would let her know about it!

Part 3) Lee Solid on Rockwell Shuttle RS-25 engines & Dean Schaaf on NASA Transoceanic Abort Landing sites...
... Lee Solid’s three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) always worked, but just in case, NASA Ground Operations Manager, Dean Schaaf, had nets ready to catch the Orbiter in overseas locations like Gambia.

Part 4) Travis “Triple T” Thompson, Lead Astronaut Close Out Crew...
... Travis, whose white room coveralls are in the Smithsonian, shares tales from the White Room (Orbiter Access Room) about pad lightning, John Glenn, filming Space Cowboys and smuggled Vodka to MIR.

Part 5) Jay Honeycutt, former Kennedy Space Center Director (1995-97) and Space Shuttle director (1989-95)...
... Jay gives a history lesson on the 1972 U.S. Congress that approved the Space Shuttle program.

Part 6) Astronauts Mike McCulley & Winston Scott...
... Yes, they are renowned astronauts. McCulley traded the Space Shuttle pilot seat for the United Space Alliance boardroom. And after some pioneering space walks, Scott walks the halls of academia promoting human diversity in space business.

Part 7) Launch Directors Jim Harrington, Bob Sieck, and Mike Leinbach...
... They launched 111 of the 135 Space Shuttle missions (82%), defining a career that had no job description–or no equal for pressure and accountability.

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See our Event page below for full event info...
https://spacewalkoffame.org/event/shu...

A part of our "Stay Curious" and "Space Workers Oral History" projects. Oral histories supported by the Marie Louise G. West Endowment.

An ORIGINAL production of The American Space Museum, Titusville, FL.
HOST & PRODUCER: Mark Marquette
CO-PRODUCER and CAMERA: Marty Winkel
TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Jessica Galloway of Cheep Development https://cheepdev.com/
IT MANAGER & TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Bruce Landon Jacobs
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