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The Mission Control Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Russian: Центр управления полётами), also known by its acronym ЦУП ("TsUP") is located in Korolyov, near the RKK Energia plant. It contains an active control room for the ISS.
White Flight Control Room prior to STS-114 in 2005 Exterior of the Mission Control building Emblem for NASA's Flight Operations Directorate (FOD). NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that ...
SpaceX Mission Control Center, Hawthorne, California. SpaceX manages its own Mission Control Center (MCC-X) inside its Hawthorne, California facility and has publicly revealed few details on its operations. About 25 flight controllers work in the control room during a crewed launch. [7]
The room where the flight controllers work was called the mission operations control room (MOCR, pronounced "moh-ker"), and now is called the flight control room (FCR, pronounced "ficker"). The controllers are experts in individual systems, and make recommendations to the flight director involving their areas of responsibility.
More modern mission control centers were split between launch control, which is located at the launch site such as Cape Canaveral, and mission control which is located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs or at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for unmanned missions. [2]
Had mission control remained offline, they said, the astronauts had enough training to control the spacecraft themselves. A month before the Polaris Dawn launch, Musk responded to an Isaacman post ...
The main ISS mission control room A building of the RKA Mission Control Center in Korolyov.. The RKA Mission Control Center [Note 1] (Russian: Центр управления полётами, romanized: Tsentr upravlyeniya polyotami), also known by its acronym TsUP (ЦУП) or by its radio callsign Mission Control Moscow, is the mission control center of Roscosmos.
The History Channel later used it to adapt a documentary about Mission Control in 2004. [6] Starting in 2017, Kranz helped kickstart and direct the restoration of the Mission Control Room in the Johnson Space Center to the appearance and function of its 1969 use during the Apollo 11 mission. [14]