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A COMING-OF-AGE SPACE ODYSSEY: Confessions of a NASA Whistleblower
An explosive, eye-opening account that challenges everything we’ve been told about modern space exploration.” — Goodreads Review
SOMETHING WENT WRONG INSIDE NASA. I WAS ON THE CONSOLE, AND I SAW IT HAPPEN.
When an internal document was stolen from my office and leaked to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Congress, I became something I never intended to a NASA whistleblower.
I was on the console for Apollo. I helped build the Space Shuttle, managed life experiments on the International Space Station, and designed spacesuits for Mars. I had a front-row seat to NASA’s greatest triumphs—and its darkest institutional failures.
But when I spoke out to warn that the agency was losing its scientific nerve and compromising its safety culture, it cost me my career, my pension, and my promised position.
Inside my personal, line-by-line exposure of the agency, you will
The Institutional How a culture afraid of its own shadow ignored critical warnings before the Columbia tragedy.The Human Research What was really passing for science in the space program behind closed doors.The Cost of the The exact bureaucratic mechanisms used to silence internal dissenters and end my 30-year aerospace career over a staged "conflict of interest."This is not a book about settling scores. This is a documented, inside look at what happens when a can-do organization loses its nerve—and what it costs the people who refuse to stay silent.
For anyone who has ever wondered what really happens behind the sealed glass doors of Mission Control, the truth doesn't belong to the bureaucrats anymore. It belongs to you.
Scroll up, click "Buy Now" (or Read for Free on Kindle Unlimited), and step inside the room where it happened.
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SOMETHING WENT WRONG INSIDE NASA. I WAS ON THE CONSOLE, AND I SAW IT HAPPEN.
When an internal document was stolen from my office and leaked to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Congress, I became something I never intended to a NASA whistleblower.
I was on the console for Apollo. I helped build the Space Shuttle, managed life experiments on the International Space Station, and designed spacesuits for Mars. I had a front-row seat to NASA’s greatest triumphs—and its darkest institutional failures.
But when I spoke out to warn that the agency was losing its scientific nerve and compromising its safety culture, it cost me my career, my pension, and my promised position.
Inside my personal, line-by-line exposure of the agency, you will
The Institutional How a culture afraid of its own shadow ignored critical warnings before the Columbia tragedy.The Human Research What was really passing for science in the space program behind closed doors.The Cost of the The exact bureaucratic mechanisms used to silence internal dissenters and end my 30-year aerospace career over a staged "conflict of interest."This is not a book about settling scores. This is a documented, inside look at what happens when a can-do organization loses its nerve—and what it costs the people who refuse to stay silent.
For anyone who has ever wondered what really happens behind the sealed glass doors of Mission Control, the truth doesn't belong to the bureaucrats anymore. It belongs to you.
Scroll up, click "Buy Now" (or Read for Free on Kindle Unlimited), and step inside the room where it happened.
our KDP dashboard today?
323 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 13, 2025
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February 5, 2026
Quite a time in history
A good read on the events that excited us all in the early space program. But it was too self centered to provide a full appreciation of the inside workings of the space program
The STS 136 concept was appealing to many of us that worked on the STS then the ISS programs. But, for the reasons Larry noted ,
STS-136 was never going to happen
A good read on the events that excited us all in the early space program. But it was too self centered to provide a full appreciation of the inside workings of the space program
The STS 136 concept was appealing to many of us that worked on the STS then the ISS programs. But, for the reasons Larry noted ,
STS-136 was never going to happen
Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 review