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Title: Curious question: Why is Doug Lyons the STS-122 LD and not Mike Leinbach?
Post by: DaveS on 01/29/2008 08:20 pm

How did it come that Doug Lyons became the STS-122 Launch Director instead of Mike Leinbach? Just a curious question.

Title: RE: Curious question: Why is Doug Lyons the STS-122 LD and not Mike Leinbach?
Post by: ras391 on 01/30/2008 12:10 am

When I asked Mike, he said what happens if something happens to me.  They are instituting a back up posture, just in case.

Title: Re: Curious question: Why is Doug Lyons the STS-122 LD and not Mike Leinbach?
Post by: ChrisGebhardt on 02/05/2008 09:52 pm

So are they going to rotate every other flight or is this just a one time thing?

Title: Re: Curious question: Why is Doug Lyons the STS-122 LD and not Mike Leinbach?
Post by: on 02/07/2008 12:51 am

I like it being Doug for 122 so you can see someone different?  If they flopped back and forth for each mission it would be nice.