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Jim
at his desk. |
While
at work in Mission Control, Houston, Jim helps develop crew
procedures for orbital rendezvous in a space shuttle simulator
(circa 1985).
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While
doing graduate work on a NASA grant, Jim attends the launch
of Apollo-8 in December 1968. |
Jim
uses his natural advantages to penetrate Soviet space secrets
at Star City, 1990. |
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Jim
meets Vasiliy Mishin, Korolyov's successor as head of the
Soviet space program, 1995 |
Jim
discusses the past, present, and future of space with Bob
Gilruth, first head of the NASA space center in Houston,
circa 1980.
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Jim
with Freeman Dyson, 1978, at the conference on "Where Are
They? Implications of Our Failure to Detect Extraterrestrials". |
The
STS-2 (November 1981) orbit-shift propulsion team in Mission
Control: front left, Ron Dittemore (former head of the shuttle
program); back center, Billy Gerstenmaier (now head of NASA's
entire manned space program); back right, Mike Engle (station
manager); front right, Jim. |
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Jim
receives National Space Club 'Robert Goddard History Award',
1975, for essay on the Soviet side of the Moon Race. |
Jim
watches a Soyuz launch at Baykonur with cosmonaut Aleksey
Leonov |
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| Jim inspects
Soviet spy satellite offered for sale (1994). |
In front row
of Mission Control in Houston, Jim served as 'Rendezvous
Guidance and Procedures Officer' for space shuttle missions
(circa 1990). |
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