NASA Mission Control Operations

Images showcase NASA mission control rooms with flight controllers monitoring spacecraft activities. The environments are high-tech, busy, and focused, featuring multiple screens and consoles.

Expedition 39 flight controllers on console during SpaceX cargo rendezvous and grappling. Flight Director: Matt Abbott. Capcoms: Jack Fischer and Randy Bresnik. Photo Date: April 20, 2014. Location: Building 30 - FCR-1.

PHOTO DATE: 05_18_10LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - (ALL)SUBJECT: STS-132/ULF4 Flight Controllers on Console - (STS-132 Orbit 1 & ISS Orbit 2 ) - (MRM-1 Deploy)

Flight controllers and Flight Director Chris Edelen in the FCR-1 during NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba, flight engineer, and his two Russian crewmates, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, on board the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft docking to the space station's Rassvet module at 11:38 p.m. Photo Date: May 16, 2012. Location: Building 30 - FCR1.

PHOTO DATE: 05-28-14LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - FCR-1 (30M/231) SUBJECT: ISS flight director David Korth and controllers on console in FCR-1 during the launch of Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency to the space station in a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Flight controllers and Flight Director Chris Edelen in the FCR-1 during NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba, flight engineer, and his two Russian crewmates, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, on board the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft docking to the space station's Rassvet module at 11:38 p.m. Photo Date: May 16, 2012. Location: Building 30 - FCR1.

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. -- From their consoles in the NASA Launch Vehicle Data Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, engineers monitor the countdown for a United Launch Alliance Atlas V with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, satellite prior to liftoff. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Liftoff is planned for Feb. 11, 2013 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. -- From their consoles in the NASA Launch Vehicle Data Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, engineers monitor the countdown for a United Launch Alliance Atlas V with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, satellite prior to liftoff. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Liftoff is planned for Feb. 11, 2013 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Hangar AE Launch Vehicle Data Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA and contractor managers and engineers monitor progress of the countdown for the launch the agency's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L, spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The TDRS-L spacecraft is the second of three new satellites designed to ensure vital operational continuity for NASA by expanding the lifespan of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System TDRSS fleet, which consists of eight satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The spacecraft provide tracking, telemetry, command and high bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. TDRS-L has a high-performance solar panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet the growing S-band communications requirements. TDRSS is one of NASA Space Communicatio

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. -- From their positions in the telemetry laboratory at Vandenberg Air Force Base, engineers and technicians monitor the countdown for a United Launch Alliance Atlas V with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, satellite prior to liftoff. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Liftoff is planned for Feb. 11, 2013 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Expedition 39 flight controllers on console during SpaceX cargo rendezvous and grappling. Flight Director: Matt Abbott. Capcoms: Jack Fischer and Randy Bresnik. Photo Date: April 20, 2014. Location: Building 30 - FCR-1.

Members of the launch team monitor the launch of NASAs Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite inside Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. The Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket carrying ICON was released from the companys L-1011 Stargazer aircraft at 9:59 p.m. EDT on Oct. 10, 2019, over the Atlantic Ocean about 50 miles from Daytona Beach following takeoff from CCAFS. ICON will spend two years studying the Earths ionosphere - the dynamic zone in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather from above. The launch was managed by the agencys Launch Services Program.

STS-131 Flight Controllers on console during the launch of Discovery on STS-131. Photo Date: April 5, 2010. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.

JSC2002-E-23113 (5 June 2002) --- The Space Shuttle Endeavour is shown on the big screen in this overall view of the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houstons Mission Control Center (MCC) as it is on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Endeavour launched at 4:23 p.m. (CDT) on June 5, 2002. Once the vehicle cleared the tower in Florida, the Houston-based team of flight controllers took over the ground control of the flight.

Vintage Photograph. Behind the scenes of video production with vintage editing equipment.

The Payload Operations Center (POC) is the science command post for the International Space Station (ISS). Located at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, it is the focal point for American and international science activities aboard the ISS. The POC's unique capabilities allow science experts and researchers around the world to perform cutting-edge science in the unique microgravity environment of space. The POC is staffed around the clock by shifts of payload flight controllers. At any given time, 8 to 10 flight controllers are on consoles operating, plarning for, and controlling various systems and payloads. This photograph shows a Payload Rack Officer (PRO) at a work station. The PRO is linked by a computer to all payload racks aboard the ISS. The PRO monitors and configures the resources and environment for science experiments including EXPRESS Racks, multiple-payload racks designed for commercial payloads.

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

NASA's Ikhana unmanned science aircraft ground control station includes consoles for two pilots and positions for scientists and engineers along the side.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Mission Director Center in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Hangar AE, mission engineers take part in a countdown simulation for the upcoming Ares I-X flight test. Ares I-X is targeted for the test on Oct. 31. The Hangar AE control rooms provide real-time voice, data and video information for ex¬pendable vehicle checkout and launch operations, similar to that provided by the space shuttle control rooms.

PHOTO DATE: 05-17-10LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - WFCR , FCR-1 and BackroomsSTS-132/ULF4 Flight Controllers on Console - Orbit 2 - Bldg. 30 south. Shuttle Flight Director: Chris Edelen Station Flight Director; Emily J. Nelson

An overall view of Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center shows the launch team at work during a terminal countdown demonstration for Exploration Mission 1, or EM-1. The launch will be the first integrated test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars. Taking place on Dec. 14, 2018, the countdown demonstration was intended to validate the launch team's capability to perform an EM-1 countdown and respond to challenges put into the system for practice.

Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside Moscow. The monitors show live video from the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft of the International Space Station. Oct. 12, 2007.

Roberta Wyrick, spacecraft test conductor with Jacobs, NASA's Test and Operations Support Contractor, monitors operations from her console in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center during a countdown simulation for Exploration Mission 1. It was the agency's first simulation of a portion of the countdown for the first launch of a Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Atlas V Spaceflight Operations Center NASA and contractor managers and engineers monitor progress of the countdown for the launch the agency's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L, spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The TDRS-L spacecraft is the second of three new satellites designed to ensure vital operational continuity for NASA by expanding the lifespan of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System TDRSS fleet, which consists of eight satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The spacecraft provide tracking, telemetry, command and high bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. TDRS-L has a high-performance solar panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet the growing S-band communications requirements. TDRSS is one of NASA Space Communication and Navigation

Hispanic security guard watching monitors in control room

Flight controllers and Flight Director Chris Edelen in the FCR-1 during NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba, flight engineer, and his two Russian crewmates, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, on board the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft docking to the space station's Rassvet module at 11:38 p.m. Photo Date: May 16, 2012. Location: Building 30 - FCR1.

STS-131 Flight Controllers on console during the launch of Discovery on STS-131. Photo Date: April 5, 2010. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Orion teams complete a connectivity test in preparation for Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Jan. 30, 2011. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Interior view of the Space Station Processing Facility

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Future Flight Central (FFC) tower Kennedy Space Center (KSC) shuttle landing simulation

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach oversees the countdown to the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis with its crew of four; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, lifted off at 11:29 a.m. EDT on July 8, 2011 to deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the station. Atlantis also will fly the Robotic Refueling Mission experiment that will investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing satellites in orbit. In addition, Atlantis will return with a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems. STS-135 will be the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mi

The Airlift Center of the AMOCC (Air Mobility Operations Control Center) at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This mission is in direct support of Operation Allied Force. The Airlift Center of the AMOCC (Air Mobility Operations Control Center) at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This mission is in direct support of Operation Allied Force.

2151:At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, a trainer keeps an eye on monitors as the Expedition 41/42 crew --- Barry Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) --- conduct a qualification exam run in a nearby Soyuz spacecraft simulator. Wilmore, Samokutyaev and Serova will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station.NASA/Stephanie Stoll

Photos of the Launch Vehicle Data Center (LVDC) in Hangar AE - Room #2 of LVDC - showing the engineering consule upgrades.

PHOTO DATE: 03-23-09LOCATION: SCTF, NBLSUBJECT: Preflight coverage of STS-128 crew members Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang during STS-128 17A TPS Ops 91027

SSME Hardware Simulation Laboratory at Marshall Space Flight Center is the facility that verifies the software which controls SSME prior to each Space Shuttle flight

STS129-S-055 (16 Nov. 2009) --- The space shuttle launch team monitors the progress of Space Shuttle Atlantis' countdown from consoles on the main floor of Firing Room 4 in Kennedy's Launch Control Center. Liftoff of Atlantis from Launch Pad 39A on its STS-129 mission to the International Space Station came at 2:28 p.m. (EST) Nov. 16, 2009.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., a Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. technician Phil Mislinski checks data from the light sensor test conducted on NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Ball Aerospace was responsible for the flight segment design and fabrication. A NASA Discovery mission, Kepler is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets. Results from this mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy. After processing at Astrotech, Kepler will be carried to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. .NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 5 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.

Senior NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding monitors operations from his position in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center during a countdown simulation for Exploration Mission 1. It was the agency's first simulation of a portion of the countdown for the first launch of a Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as the Moon and Mars.

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. -- From their positions in the telemetry laboratory at Vandenberg Air Force Base, engineers and technicians monitor the countdown for a United Launch Alliance Atlas V with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, satellite prior to liftoff. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, or LDCM, is the future of Landsat satellites. It will continue to obtain valuable data and imagery to be used in agriculture, education, business, science, and government. The Landsat Program provides repetitive acquisition of high resolution multispectral data of the Earth's surface on a global basis. The data from the Landsat spacecraft constitute the longest record of the Earth's continental surfaces as seen from space. It is a record unmatched in quality, detail, coverage, and value. Liftoff is planned for Feb. 11, 2013 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

NASA astronaut Eric Boe watches as Aerojet Rocketdyne test team engineers direct the test-firing of an RL10 engine at the company's facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The engine will be one of two used for the Centaur upper stage during a United Launch Alliance Atlas V mission to launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on a flight test carrying a crew. The engine was test-fired as part of acceptance testing to confirm the engine is ready for flight.

Switzerland, Geneva, Control centre, CERN

Switzerland, Geneva, Control room in CERN. General view of the ATLAS particle detector control room. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the biggest particle physics laboratory in the world.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the newly remodeled Launch Control Center's Young-Crippen Firing Room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineering directorate personnel demonstrate the recently added Space Command & Control System which will be used for launches of future human spaceflight vehicles.Known as Firing Room 1 in the Apollo era, it was re-named as a tribute to the Space Shuttle Program's first crewed mission, STS-1, which was flown by Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen in April 1981.

PHOTO DATE: 12 July 2011LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - WFCRSUBJECT: STS-135 Orbit 3 Flight Controllers in WFCR.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside the Orion Test and Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers prepare for the first Exploration Flight Test 1, or EFT-1, power up test. NASAs first-ever deep space craft, Orion, was powered on for the first time, marking a major milestone in the final year of preparations for flight. Orions avionics system was installed on the crew module and powered up for a series of systems tests.Orion is the exploration spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to destinations not yet explored by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. It will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities. The first unpiloted test flight of Orion, EFT-1, is scheduled to launch in 2014 atop a Delta IV rocket and in 2017 on NASAs Space Launch System rocket.

Future Flight Central Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Phase 2 simulations in FFC Tower with Jim McMahon Barry Gloth, Chris Hall, Elliot Brann and Boris Rabin

Inside control room of ESPN with multiple TV monitors in Bristol, Connecticut.

Automated Flight and Contingency Management, or AFCM, Subproject Simulation FAA-2 Flight Tests in the Vertical Motion Simulator, or VMS. AFCM subproject simulation FAA-2 flight test team members Allen Ruan, left, Thomas Lombaerts, and Kimberlee Shish, right, in the VMS control room, N243, during a simulation.

Photos of the Launch Vehicle Data Center (LVDC) in Hangar AE - Room #1 of LVDC - showing the engineering consule upgrades.

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Marilyn Felch, controls systems engineer, works on the T-2 Test Cell Westinghouse Test Area Control 2D3451A computer. The control system tests tactical engines in the T-2 cell at Arnold Engineering Development Center. Base: Arnold Air Force Station State: Tennessee (TN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Flight controllers in the JSC mission control center watch television transmissions of Discovery's rendezvous activities with the Syncom-IV (LEASAT) satellite and follow new data on their individual consoles.

NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 Launch. Monitors in firing room four show NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard SpaceXs Dragon spacecraft as NASA and SpaceX teams monitor the countdown of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev launched at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Members of the Artemis 1 launch team, including personnel with NASAs Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs Test and Operations Contract (TOSC), participate in validation testing inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 11, 2019.The team includes personnel with NASAs Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) and Jacobs Test and Operations Contract (TOSC). The simulation was designed to validate the firing room consoles and communications systems, as well as the new Spaceport Command and Control System (SCCS), which will operate, monitor and coordinate ground equipment in preparation for Artemis 1, the uncrewed first flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

Power Control Centre of the ELE, Emscher Lippe Energie GmbH, a subsiduary of the RWE, control room of the regional energy network for gas and electricity, Gladbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Vintage Photograph. Modern railway command center with advanced monitoring technology.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, NASA management and members of Congess watch the beginning of the first all-woman spacewalk on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, from the Space Operations Center at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The first all-woman spacewalk in history began at 7:38am EDT with NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir venturing outside the International Space Station to replace a failed battery charge-discharge unit. This is the fourth spacewalk for Koch and Meirs first.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The prime launch team for the Ares I-X flight test monitors the countdown from consoles in the Young-Crippen Firing Room in the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.This will be the first launch from Kennedy's pads of a vehicle other than the space shuttle since the Apollo Program's Saturn rockets were retired. The parts used to make the Ares I-X booster flew on 30 different shuttle missions ranging from STS-29 in 1989 to STS-106 in 2000. The data returned from more than 700 sensors throughout the rocket will be used to refine the design of future launch vehicles and bring NASA one step closer to reaching its exploration goals.

In the Swamp Works laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, student interns such as Thomas Muller, left, and Austin Langdon are joining agency scientists, contributing in the area of Exploration Research and Technology. Muller is pursuing a degree in computer engineering and control systems and Florida Tech. Langdon is an electrical engineering major at the University of Kentucky. The agency attracts its future workforce through the NASA Internship, Fellowships and Scholarships, or NIFS, Program.

ISS Orbit 2 flight controllers on console with Flight Director Bob Dempsey during the ESA ATV docking to space station. Photo Date: February 24, 2011. Location: Building 30M, FCR-1.

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

An enlistee and officer operate a console at the Ground Electro Optical Deep Space Surveillance System site. Base: Thousand Oaks State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

NASA/Stephanie Stoll

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Three rows of upper level management consoles are all that remain in Firing Room 4 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The main floor consoles, cabling and wires below the floor and ceiling tiles above have been removed. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing efforts to create a new firing room based on a multi-user concept that will support NASA and commercial launch needs.The design of Firing Room 4 will incorporate five control room areas that are flexible to meet current and future NASA and commercial user requirements. The equipment and most of the consoles from Firing Room 4 were moved to Firing Room 2 for possible future reuse.

Monitors inside firing room four show views of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken onboard at Launch Complex 39A, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

Group of Security data center operators working in a CCTV monitoring room looking on multiple monitors Officers Monitoring Multiple Screens for Suspicious Activities Team working on the System Control Room

Video surveillance, control room with monitor wall

NASA Recovery Team members and wave trackers monitor recovery of a test version of the Orion crew module inside the USS John P. Murtha, during Underway Recovery Test (URT-7) on Nov. 4 2018. URT-7 is one in a series of tests conducted by the Exploration Ground Systems Recovery Team to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration missions. Orion will have emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.

Ken Schrock and teams at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center help monitor launch conditions for the Demo-2 mission from the Huntsville Operations Support Center, HOSC.

The F-18 simulator at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Simulators offer a safe and economical alternative to actual flights to gather data, as well as being excellent facilities for pilot practice and training.The F-18 Hornet is used primarily as a safety chase and mission support aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. As support aircraft, the F-18's are used for safety chase, pilot proficiency, aerial photography and other mission support functions.

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside Firing Room 4 in the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the outer walls, inner walls, windows and doors for the four separate firing rooms on the main floor have been completed. Three rows of upper level management consoles remain and could be used as a fifth firing room. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing the efforts to create a new firing room based on a multi-user concept. The space shuttle mission plaques and posters remain on the wall above the firing rooms.The design of Firing Room 4 incorporates five control room areas that can be flexible to meet current and future NASA and commercial user requirements. The equipment and most of the consoles from Firing Room 4 were moved to Firing Room 2 for possible future reuse.

Control room in Russian expedition ship

FFC (Future Flight Central) Simulator interior 'LAX' Configuration with Ken Christensen in pilots room

Video surveillance, control room with monitor wall

NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 Final Launch Operations Rehearsal . Nicole Jordan, manager of the Spacecraft Office for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, monitors the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft on NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov onboard, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, in SpaceXs SpaceXs Launch and Landing Control Center in HangerX at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are scheduled to launch on 3:49 a.m. EDT on Friday, August 25, from Launch Complex 39A at the K

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Engineers monitor preparations inside a control room for the free flight test of NASA's Project Morpheus prototype lander at a new launch site at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 96-second test began at 4:21 p.m. EDT with the Morpheus lander launching from the ground over the flame trench and ascending more than 800 feet at a peak speed of 36 mph. The vehicle with its recently installed autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology, or ALHAT, sensors surveyed the hazard field to determine safe landing sites. Morpheus then flew forward and downward covering 1,300 feet while performing a 78-foot divert to simulate a hazard avoidance maneuver. The lander descended and landed on a dedicated pad inside the ALHAT field. Project Morpheus tests NASAs ALHAT, and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, or green propellants, into a fully-operational lander that could deliver cargo to other planetary

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The NASA and United Launch Alliance launch teams monitor the countdown before the launch of the TDRS-K spacecraft on an Atlas V rocket. The teams work inside the Atlas Space Operations Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., known as the ASOC.

The flight deck of the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) at the Johnson Space Center on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, in Houston. The laboratory is a skeletal avionics version of the shuttle that uses actual orbiter hardware and flight software. The facility even carries the official orbiter designation as OV-095. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool )

Preston Jones, Deborah Crane, and teams at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center help monitor launch conditions for the Demo-2 mission from the Huntsville Operations Support Center, HOSC.

Radar controller of traffic control (CRC) of the AOCS in New Milligs.

Monitors fill the wall inside the control room of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Inside Firing Room 4 in the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the outer walls and window framing for the four separate firing rooms on the main floor have been completed. Three rows of upper level management consoles remain and could be used as a fifth firing room. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing the efforts to create a new firing room based on a multi-user concept.The design of Firing Room 4 will incorporate five control room areas that are flexible to meet current and future NASA and commercial user requirements. The equipment and most of the consoles from Firing Room 4 were moved to Firing Room 2 for possible future reuse.

STS-131 TCDT - T-0 LCC FIRING ROOM 4 ACTIVITIES

NASA GPM Radio Frequency Engineer David Lassiter monitors the progress of an all-day launch simulation for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory at the Spacecraft Test and Assembly Building 2 (STA2), Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC), Tanegashima Island, Japan. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch an H-IIA rocket carrying the GPM Core Observatory on Feb. 28, 2014. The NASA-JAXA GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As seen on Google Maps, Firing Room 3 inside the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center was one of the four control rooms used by NASA and contractor launch teams to oversee a space shuttle countdown. This firing room is furnished in the classic style with the same metal computer cabinets and some of the same monitors in place when the first shuttle mission launched April 12, 1981. Specialized operators worked at consoles tailored to keep track of the status of shuttle systems while the spacecraft was processed in the Orbiter Processing Facility, being stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building and standing at the launch pad before liftoff. The firing rooms, including 3, were also used during NASA's Apollo Program. Google precisely mapped the space center and some of its historical facilities for the company's map page. The work allows Internet users to see inside buildings at Kennedy as they were used during the space shuttle era.

STS-132 LAUNCH L-0 FIRING ROOM 2 & 4 TANKING PRELAUNCH ACTIVITIES

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DATE: 5-16-11LOCATION: Bldg. 30south - WFCRSUBJECT: STS-134 flight controllers on console during the launch of Endeavour with Flight Director Richard Jones

Control systems for the engine room on board a container ship.

Switzerland, Geneva, General view of ATLAS particle detector control room, CERN

Technicians man their test consoles in the Global Positioning System satellite network. Base: Yuma Test Range State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

One of 13 control stations in the simulation centre, for the instruction and training of operating personnel of all German nuclear power stations, KSG-GfS, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

HOUSTON - Monitors show Chris Ferguson, a former space shuttle commander who is now director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing Space Exploration, at the controls in the inside the company's CST-100 spacecraft simulator. Boeing demonstrated that the CST-100 software allows a human pilot to take over control of the spacecraft from the computer during all phases of a mission following separation from the launch vehicle. The pilot-in-the-loop demonstration at the Houston Product Support Center is a milestone under Boeing's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement with the agency and its Commercial Crew Program.

Adam Butt andTeams at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center help monitor launch conditions for the Demo-2 mission from the Huntsville Operations Support Center, HOSC.

Artemis teams conduct the final simulation for the Artemis I mission inside the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 4, 2022. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. During the flight, Orion will launch atop the most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any spacecraft for humans has ever flown. The spacecraft will stay in space longer than any human spacecraft has without docking to the International Space Station and return home faster than ever before. Shown here, from left to right, is Bubba Howard and Lisa DeVries, who are in charge of the safety console.

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