Mission Control
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NASA
Houston, We Have the Holiday Cookies
Supporting the International Space Station is an around-the-clock responsibility for NASA and its international partners. This means there is always a team of flight operations and payload personnel working with the orbiting laboratory’s crew – including overnight, on weekends, and during the holidays. At Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston, flight directors organize fun activities to help…
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SPACE WEEK: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
The book by Gene Kranz, best known for being the mission control commander during Apollo 13, published his memior in 2009 and is available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Audio Book form. It details the career of Gene Kranz from the birth of NASA (and the start of his career) clear through Apollo 13 and his retirement. It’s a great…
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NASA Administrator Remembers Mission Control Pioneer Chris Kraft
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of Chris Kraft, who died Monday in Houston at the age of 95: “America has truly lost a national treasure today with the passing of one of NASA’s earliest pioneers – flight director Chris Kraft. We send our deepest condolences to the Kraft family. “Chris was one…
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Be a Flight Director: NASA Accepting Applications for Mission Control Leaders
How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring new flight directors for just this job at its mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “Flight directors play a critical role in the success…
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