Endeavour Rollout to Launch Pad 39A, Aug. 8, 1995
Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its STS-69 mission on September 7, 1995. The orbiter and stack had rolled back to the VAB on Aug. 1 to avoid the effets of Hurricane Erin. I was one of the capcoms...
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FROM AIAA Daily Launch, July 1, 2014: ARM Promoted As Fruitful First Step Toward Mars. In an article for the Space Review (6/30), Louis Friedman, Executive Director-Emeritus of the Planetary Society,...
View ArticleDid UFOs Visit STS-80 Columbia?
Originally posted on Astronaut Tom Jones: Flight Notes: During the week of April 11, 2011, the FBI released some of its investigation records on UFOs. The reports reflect the reality that people do see...
View ArticleSTS-68 Preflight: Getting Ready for Space Radar Lab 2
The crew of STS-68, Space Radar Lab 2, on Endeavour. Throughout our training syllabus, we were guided through the frantic schedule of classes and simulator sessions by our training team. Without their...
View ArticleFood for Thought…Just Before Liftoff
In a tradition dating back to Alan Shepard’s first U.S. spaceflight in 1961, astronauts are served a favorite meal before suiting up and heading to the launch pad–and space. On STS-68, scheduled for an...
View ArticleFour Hairballs Head for Space–STS-68
Since July 1990, the 23 members of Astronaut Group XIII had studied and trained together for their ultimate challenge in space. Although all of us wanted to be the first in our class to fly, we knew it...
View Article#Apollo45: Moon Memories
July 2014 marked the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the first time astronauts visited and walked on another celestial body. I recorded my memories of that event, and the inspiration it...
View ArticleLaunching an Annual Asteroid Day
In late February, the Association of Space Explorers, working with the United Nations in Vienna, proposed that the UN declare that Asteroid Day be held as an annual, global event. Asteroid Day, first...
View ArticleList of Tom Jones Consulting Projects
Assessment with the IHMC team of how to use space resources from the asteroids, Mars moons, and Mars atmosphere and surface to support human expeditions to the Red Planet. (2015) On-air spaceflight...
View ArticleSTS-80 Mission Highlights: Nov.-Dec. 1996
Mission Highlights STS-80 November 1996 (Published by NASA Johnson Space Center in early 1997, and transcribed by me for posting here. Credit NASA) Double deploys Highlight Mission An early morning...
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Resurrecting a Combat-Vet Marauder
After effective service as a rugged, accurate medium bomber flying mainly in WWII’s European theater, few Martin B-26 Marauders survived the Army Air Forces’ rapid demobilization at the end of the...
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