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ISS Update: Final Week for Long Time Flight Director Paul Dye -- 01.11.13

Public Affairs Officer Dan Huot sits down with Flight Director Paul Dye in the Station Flight Control Room. In his final week as a flight director, Dye discusses his experiences from the beginning with the shuttle program to his current role with the station program. Paul Dye began his career at NASA as a student from the University of Minnesota. He already had a commercial pilot's license and was an experienced diver before being hired as a flight controller. Dye describes the flight director's role as a leadership position rather than a management position. In Mission Control, Dye says a flight controller's two main duties are "flight safety and mission success." It was during STS-63, NASA's second mission to the Russian Mir space station, that Dye directed his first shuttle flight in 1995. He was flight director for 38 more missions and lead flight director during nine. He was also one of the flight directors for STS-135 in 2011, the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program.