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Fixing What’s Broken

By Frank Snow Everything looked good as we started the first day of vibration tests on the High Energy Solar Spectrascopic Imager (HESSI).

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Give it to Chuck

By Frank Snow When I was the Ground System Project Manager for the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), Chuck Athas, who had extensive experience with large NASA and DoD systems, was officially my scheduler and planner, but he was also my can-do person.

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The “Tried and True”

By Frank Snow Background There was a Chinese place near Goddard Space Flight Center where members of my Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) team often went for lunch.

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Two Outs, Bottom of the Ninth

By Frank Snow It was eight months before launch when my second Flight Operations Team lead said he was leaving the project for another job.

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