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no one has seen more liftoffs firsthand than paul dye, the longest serving flight director in nasa's history. he is now retired and has a new book. guy invited jeff glore to his home in nevada for a chat. >> reporter: there is no grass or a pool, but there is a runway. >> we just go. we kind of treat our airplanes like bicycles, you know. if you want to go to the end of the street, you go to the end of the street. >> reporter: on a windy morning outside reno, we went up in dye's rv-8. a flight path took us near air station fallon, home of the real top gun. >> we try to stay out of top gun's air space. probably a good idea, yes. >> reporter: for years he was head of kit planes magazines where he still contributes. his most impressive resume is with nasa where he worked more than 30 years, including 20 years as a flight director, more than anyone else in history. >> i consider myself kind of a feel general. i really like being in the battle. i like being in the thick of things. and i kind of recognized early on that unless i became a politician and ran for office, i wasn't going to be

theoining us today for panel is paul dye. he has four take its of aviation aviation experience as an engineer, builder and pilot. he was the longest-serving flight director in history, the leader of several missions. he received the outstanding leadership medal, three exceptional service medals and the presidential medal. he is now leadership consultant and speaker as those former editor in chief of the magazine.

snag joining us today is paul dye. paul dye has decades of experience as a pilot. he's a longest-servingir flight deck or in history. he received the nasa outstanding service medal and the presidential medal. he is a former editor-in-chief of --he but his book is "shuttle houston" life in the center seat of mission control. paul it's good to have you. >> it's great to be here. >> talk about the book and what should readers expect? >> well i guess the first thing i would say -- we are getting a little at go there but the very first flight director was chris kraft and chris wrote a book about his days in the space program. and then dean wrote a book failure is not an option when he was flight director for apollo. i felt that somebody needed to capture the view from the flight director's console and mission control with the shuttle program. there are now, we are seeing lots of excellent looks by mostly astronauts about their years in the shuttle program and the thing that i would like people to remember is that for every astronaut that flies there are tens of thousand

theoining us today for panel is paul dye. he has four take its of aviation aviation experience as an engineer, builder and pilot. he was the longest-serving flight director in history, the leader of several missions. he received the outstanding leadership medal, three exceptional service medals and the presidential medal. he is now leadership consultant and speaker as those former editor in chief of the magazine. his book is "shuttle, houston: life in the center seat of mission control." paul, it's great to have you here by the way. >> thanks. it's great to. be here. >> excellent. talklk a little bit about the bk and how it came about. what can readers expect and why did you write it? >> well, i guess the first thing to say is we're getting a little echo here, but the very first flight director was chris craft back in the mercury days and a chris wrote a book about his days in the space program. on abf apollo. i kind of felt somebody needed to capture the view from the flight director and mission control for the program. we a

. >> joining us today for the panel shuttle houston is paul dye with four decades of experience as an engineer, builder and retired in 2019 is the longest-serving flight director in history. and the leader of several missions. he received an outstanding leadership medal, three exceptional service metals and presidential medal. now a leadership consultant and

snag joining us today is paul dye.

. >> joining us today for the panel shuttle houston is paul dye with four decades of experience as an engineer, builder and retired in 2019 is the longest-serving flight director in history. and the leader of several missions. he received an outstanding leadership medal, three exceptional service metals and presidential medal. now a leadership consultant and speaker and former engineer of kipling's magazine. his book is shuttle houston, my life in the center seat of mission control. it's great to have you here by the way. >> talked a little bit about the book and how it came about. what can the readers expect? >> i guess the first thing to say -- we are getting a little echo. but the first flight director was back in the mercury days and chris wrote a book about his days in the space program. then the book failure is not an option about his years of apollo. i kind of felt somebody needed to capture the view from the flight director and mission control for the program. we are seeing lots and lots of excellent books by mostly astronauts about their years in the shuttle program. the thin