Space Mission Control Operations

Images depict various mission control settings with teams monitoring spacecraft operations, training sessions, and emergency scenarios. Technical equipment and a collaborative atmosphere are prominent

. Artemis-1 flight controllers during Orion Distant Retrograde Departure. Photo Date: December 1, 2022. Location: Building 30, MCC, FCR-1. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

PHOTO DATE: 07-18-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 38 crew's Emergency Scenarios Training in SVMTF's ISS Mockups.

Date: 07-16-13Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1Subject: Expedition 36 ISS flight controllers on console during EVA #23 with Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano.

STS-129 crew members Mike Foreman, Randy Bresnik, Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Robert Satcher prepare for 20A EVA Review dive at the NBL. Photo Date: March 26, 2009. Location - NBL Pool Topside and Control Room.

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) command team at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory monitoring the DART spacecrafts impact into the asteroid Dimorphos. The operation is the first of its kind test to redirect deadly asteroids from hitting Earth.

. Artemis-1 flight controllers during Orion Distant Retrograde Departure. Photo Date: December 1, 2022. Location: Building 30, MCC, FCR-1. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

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

DATE: 8-12-14LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - FCR-1 (30M/231)SUBJECT: ISS Flight Controllers during docking of the "Georges Lemaitre" Automated Transfer Vehicle-5 to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module.

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) command team at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory monitoring the DART spacecrafts impact into the asteroid Dimorphos. The operation is the first of its kind test to redirect deadly asteroids from hitting Earth.

JSC2012-E-226814 (24 Oct. 2012) --- In the simulation control area, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition 39 commander; and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38/39 flight engineer; along with crew instructors and NBL personnel prepare for a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. Wakata and Mastracchio are wearing liquid cooling and ventilation garments that complement the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit.

JSC2009-E-246721 (4 Dec. 2009) --- Astronauts Terry Virts, STS-130 pilot; and Kathryn Hire, mission specialist, participate in a robotics training session in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

DATE: 7-3-13LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 36S crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins and 37S crew (Wakata, Tyurin, Mastracchio) during Emergency Scenarios Training.

JSC2001-E-06196 (8 March 2001) --- At his console in Houston's Mission Control Center, STS-102 lead flight director John Shannon (center), gathers mission data on STS-102 launch day.

Todd Brown, working Cassini's attitude and articulation control subsystems, is seen at his console during the spacecraft's final plunge into Saturn, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. Loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft occurred at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT). The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

JSC2005-E-30656 (28 July 2005) --- Rob Navias, Public Affairs Office commentator, describes the activities of a very busy third flight day for STS-114 from the PAO console in the Space Shuttle (White) Flight Control Room.

DATE: 3-27-14.LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - FCR-1 (30M/231).SUBJECT: Expedition 39 flight controllers on console with Flight Director Ron Spencer watch the approach of the Soyuz 39 crew docking to the ISS from FCR-1..

Date: 07-16-13Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1Subject: Expedition 36 ISS flight controllers on console during EVA #23 with Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano.

PHOTO DATE: 05-15-14LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 42 crew members Butch Wilmore, Alexander Samokutyaev and Yelena Serova during Routine Ops training

Date: 07-16-13Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1Subject: Expedition 36 ISS flight controllers on console during EVA #23 with Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano.

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, right, talks with NASA James Webb Space Telescope deputy senior project scientist Jon Gardner, as she is given a tour of the NASA James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore. Prior to the tour the deputy spoke at a briefing that focused on the status of NASAs James Webb Space Telescope in its final weeks of preparing for its science mission, as well as overviews of planned science for Webbs first year of operations.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, members of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) launch team monitor GRAIL's launch countdown from the Mission Directors Center in Hangar AE. From left are Joe Lackovich, NASA advisory manager, NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP); Amanda Mitskevich, manager, LSP; and Oscar Toledo, NASA Headquarters senior advisor, LSP.Launch is scheduled for 8:37:06 a.m. EDT Sept. 8 from Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moon's gravitational field. The mission will provide the most accurate global gravity field to date for any planet, including Earth.

Mars InSight team members monitor the status of the lander prior to it touching down on Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

New Horizons team members wait for a signal from the spacecraft that it is healthy and collected data during the flyby of Ultima Thule, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at the Mission Operations Center of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

JSC2009-E-119397 (12 May 2009) --- Flight directors Rick LaBrode (left) and Chris Edelen monitor data at their console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during STS-125 flight day two activities.

DATE: 1-12-14LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - FCR-1 (30M/231)SUBJECT: Expedition 38 flight controllers during Orbital Sciences' Cygnus approaching ISS and being grappled.

PHOTO DATE: 05-14-10LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - WFCRSUBJECT: STS-132/ULF4 WFCR Flight Controllers on Console During Launch with Flight Director Richard Jones

Photograph STS-135 entry flight controllers on console during the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis with Flight Director Tony Ceccacci. Photo Date: July 21, 2011. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.

PHOTO DATE: 09-25-09LOCATION: Bldg 9, VR LabSUBJECT: STS-131 crew during VR LAB MSS/EVAB SUPT3 TEAM 91016 training

PHOTO DATE: 05-13-09LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south , WFCR & BackroomsSUBJECT: STS-125 Flight Controllers on Console During HST Grapple - Orbit 1 - Bldg. 30 south. Flight Director: Tony Ceccacci

STS-133/ULF5 Ascent and Entry flight control team photo with Flight Director's Tony Ceccacci (Entry) and Richard Jones (Ascent). Photo Date: March 08, 2011. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.

NASA engineers monitor mission progress from a Dryden control room prior to launch of the X-43A scramjet and its booster from NASA's B-52B mothership.

PHOTO DATE: 5-13-14LOCATION: Bldg 30 - FCR-1 SUBJECT: Flight Director Dina Contella and flight controllers on console in FCR-1 during undocking of Expedition 39 crew (Tyurin, Mastracchio, Wakata).

DATE: 5-16-14. LOCATION: Bldg. 16N, Room 1040. SUBJECT: Expedition 47 (Soyuz 45) crew members Tim Kopra and Timothy Peake during FF T&C/R ADV2 training in the SES Alpha Cupola.

JSC2009-E-246727 (4 Dec. 2009) --- Astronauts Terry Virts, STS-130 pilot; and Kathryn Hire, mission specialist, participate in a robotics training session in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize, center row, calls out the end of the Cassini mission, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

Artemis II Crew with EGS. Artemis launch team members listen to Artemis II astronauts during their visit to Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7, 2023. Artemis II NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Weisman, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hanson are at the center to greet workers and tour facilities. The approximately 10-day Artemis II flight will test NASAs foundational human deep space exploration capabilities, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, for the first time with astronauts and will pave the way for lunar surface missions, including landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon.

Expedition 54 flight engineers Scott Tingle of NASA, bottom left, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, bottom center, and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) bottom right, are seen with flight engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, top left, Commander Alexander Misurkin, top center, and flight engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA, top right, on a video monitor as they U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. at the Moscow Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia a few hours after the Soyuz MS-07 docked to the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017.

NASAs Perseverance Mars rover mission commentator and guidance, navigation, and controls operations Lead Swati Mohan studies data in mission control, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverances mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planets geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

. Artemis-1 flight controllers during Orion Distant Retrograde Departure. Photo Date: December 1, 2022. Location: Building 30, MCC, FCR-1. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

Artemis II Crew with EGS. Artemis II astronauts visit the Artemis launch team inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7, 2023. In front, from left are CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hanson, and NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Weisman. At far right is Artemis Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. The approximately 10-day Artemis II flight will test NASAs foundational human deep space exploration capabilities, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, for the first time with astronauts and will pave the way for lunar surface missions, including landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon.

PHOTO DATE: 07-18-13LOCATION: Bldg. 9NW - ISS Mockups SUBJECT: Expedition 38 crew's Emergency Scenarios Training in SVMTF's ISS Mockups.

JSC2002-E-27068 (1 July 2002) --- Astronaut Pamela A. Melroy, STS-112 pilot, observes training activities of her crewmates from the simulation control area in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Sonny Carter Training Facility (SCTF) near the Johnson Space Center (JSC). United Space Alliance (USA) EVA training team member Oscar Koehler is visible in the background.

DATE: 3-27-14.LOCATION: Bldg. 30 - FCR-1 (30M/231).SUBJECT: Expedition 39 flight controllers on console with Flight Director Ron Spencer watch the approach of the Soyuz 39 crew docking to the ISS from FCR-1..

Photo Date: April 12, 2010Location: Bldg. 30 S, WFCRSubject: STS-131 Orbit 1 FCR Team - Flight Director Richard Jones

JSC2002-E-41150 (7 October 2002) --- Flight directors John Shannon (left) and Steve Stich monitor data at their consoles in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houstons Mission Control Center (MCC). Wayne Hale (standing) of the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) looks on. At the time this photo was taken the Space Shuttle Atlantis was about to launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Atlantis lifted off at 2:46 p.m. (CDT) on October 7, 2002. Once the vehicle cleared the tower in Florida, the Houston-based team of flight controllers took over the ground control of the flight.

A view from the balcony of the Russian Mission Control Center shows live television of the Expedition 39 crew members gathered together on the International Space Station a few hours after the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft docked on Friday, March 28, 2014, in Korolev, Russia. Pictured are Expedition 39 crew members Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, left, Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, back left, Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, front center, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, back center, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, back right and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, front right. Swanson, Skvortsov, and Oleg's arrival to the International Space Station comes two days after they launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager, NASA JPL, left, and Sue Smrekar, InSight deputy principal investigator, NASA JPL, react after receiving confirmation that the Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

Members of the Artemis I launch team are at their consoles inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch countdown Aug. 29, 2022. Launch of the agencys Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft was waved off due to an issue during tanking. Launch is now no earlier than Sept. 3, at 2:17 p.m. EDT from Kennedys Launch Complex 39B. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

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

NASA Ares I-X Launch Director Ed Mango, 3rd from left, along with other mission managers watches the launch of the Ares I-X rocket from Firing Room One of the Launch Control Center (LCC) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. The flight test of Ares I-X will provide NASA with an early opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I.

Associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen is seen in the mission control room, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. Loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft occurred at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT). The plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission.

Views of MOCR activity during the STS-5 Mission (11/11-16/1982) of Dr. Hans Mark, NASA Deputy Administrator; Gerald Griffin; portrait of the STS-5 Flight Directors, Flight Director (FD) Cox and Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, Associate Administrator for Space Flight, in the MOCR during the STS-5 Mission. 1. Abrahamson, J. T., Gen,.- STS-5 MOCR 2. Flight Directors - STS-5 MOCR 3. STS-5 - Inflight MOCR 4. Mark, Hans Dr. - STS-5 MOCR 5. Dir. Griffin, Gerald- STS-5 MOCR JSC, Houston, TX. S83-27153 thru S83-27158

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the communications room above the Atlas V Spaceflight Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA Public Information Officer George Diller rehearses his role for the upcoming launch of the New Horizons spacecraft. Behind him are Tiffany Nail, with the Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center, and Bob Summerville, a Lockheed Martin console system software engineer. Members of the New Horizons team are taking part in a dress rehearsal for the launch scheduled in mid-January. New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments that will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and its moon Charon, map their surface compositions and temperatures, and examine Pluto's complex atmosphere. After that, flybys of Kuiper Belt objects from even farther in the solar system may be undertaken in an extended mission. New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers program of medium-class planetary missions. The spacecra

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine watches the launch of NASA's InSight spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket Saturday, May 5, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

At the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses for pictures Nov. 20 as he awaited the docking of the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Aboard the Soyuz were Expedition 50-51 crewmembers Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

Date: 07-16-13Location: Bldg 30 South, FCR-1Subject: Expedition 36 ISS flight controllers on console during EVA #23 with Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano.

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

New Horizons Deputy Mission Operations Manager Karl Whittenburg, left, New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, and New Horizons Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, right, wait for a signal from the spacecraft that it is healthy and collected data during the flyby of Ultima Thule, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 in the Mission Operations Center at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of NASAs Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters and other Mars InSight team members monitor the status of the lander prior to it touching down on Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

JSC2011-E-005864 (19 Jan. 2011) --- NASA astronaut Mike Fossum (facing camera), Expedition 28 flight engineer and Expedition 29 commander, participates in an emergency scenarios training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

JSC2012-E-237304 (5 Nov. 2012) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (left), Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition 39 commander; along with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins (center), Expedition 37/38 flight engineer; and Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38/39 flight engineer, are pictured during a training session in the virtual reality lab in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

DATE: 7-3-13LOCATION: Bldg 9NW - ISS Mockups.SUBJECT: Expedition 36S crew members, Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins and 37S crew (Wakata, Tyurin, Mastracchio) during Emergency Scenarios Training.

CHUCK JACKSON, ASTRONAUT ARNOLD, JOHN NIX POSE WITH EXPEDITION 56 PLAQUE

JSC2009-E-120489 (14 May 2009) --- Astronaut Dan Burbank, STS-125 spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), monitors data at his console in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during flight day four activities.

JSC2000-E-29791 (30 November 2000) ---Astronaut Dominic L. Gorie, spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), follows STS-97 pre-launch activity from the CAPCOM console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) at Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC).

Artemis II Crew with EGS. Artemis II astronauts pose for a photograph with members of the Artemis launch team inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 7, 2023. In front, kneeling from left are NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Weisman, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hanson, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch. Standing behind them, second from left is Artemis Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. The approximately 10-day Artemis II flight will test NASAs foundational human deep space exploration capabilities, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, for the first time with astronauts and will pave the way for lunar surface missions, including landing the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon.

NASA ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY, , CHATS WITH MEMBERS OF THE HUNTSVILLE-AREA NEWS MEDIA DURING HIS JAN. 22 VISIT TO THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) command team at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory monitoring the DART spacecrafts impact into the asteroid Dimorphos. The operation is the first of its kind test to redirect deadly asteroids from hitting Earth.

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, CO, celebrates with other mission team members after they received signals from the spacecraft that it is healthy and collected data during the flyby of Ultima Thule, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 at the Mission Operations Center of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

In the Mission Director's Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Omar Baez, a senior launch director in NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, center, monitors the progress of preparations to launch eight Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, spacecraft. Seated to his left, facing the camera, is Tim Dunn, launch director for the CYGNSS mission. The CYGNSS satellites will make frequent and accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. The data that CYGNSS provides will enable scientists to probe key air-sea interaction processes that take place near the core of storms, which are rapidly changing and play a crucial role in the beginning and intensification of hurricanes.

PHOTO DATE: 02-09-10LOCATION:Bldg. 17, Room 1070 Food Lab SUBJECT: STS-133 Food Tasting

JSC2005-E-31936 (3 August 2005) --- Astronauts Julie Payette (Canadian Space Agency) and Stephen N. Frick monitor communications at the spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) console in the Shuttle (White) Flight Control Room in Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Mission Control Center during the third period of extravehicular activity (EVA) for STS-114.

Photo Date: 02-04-2010Location: Bldg. 30, WFCRSubject: STS-130 / 20A Flight Directors

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) command team at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory monitoring the DART spacecrafts impact into the asteroid Dimorphos. The operation is the first of its kind test to redirect deadly asteroids from hitting Earth.

JSC2006-E-39881 (10 Sept. 2006) --- In the Shuttle (White) Flight Control Room of Houston's Mission Control Center, flight director Paul Dye (right) and spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) Megan McArthur monitor data during the STS-115 inspection of the wings' leading edge and nose cap of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

On July 16, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch to the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins speaks to launch team members from Apollo 11 and the current launch team for Artemis 1 in Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

PHOTO DATE: 05-11-09LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - (Rooms)SUBJECT: STS-125 Flight Controllers on Console - (Orbit Shift) - (Subject)

JSC2001-E-06217 (8 March 2001) --- At his console in Houston's Mission Control Center, STS-102 lead flight director John Shannon studies mission data on STS-102 launch day.

JSC2009-E-120845 (20 May 2009) --- The members of the STS-125 Orbit 2 flight control team pose for a group portrait in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Flight director Rick LaBrode (right) is visible on the front row.

STS-128 Press Conference. Photo Date: August 13, 2009. Location: Bldg. 2 - Rm 122 Press Conference.

STS-133 flight controllers on console during the launch of Discovery with Flight Director Richard Jones. Photo Date: February 24, 2011. Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.

Laura Pan, National Center for Atmospheric Research senior scientist, explains the characteristics of a monsoon during a NASA media event at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 5, 2022. The event enabled local news agencies to participate in a question-and-answer panel with scientists and researchers participating in the Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impact Project.

Members of the Artemis I launch team are photographed inside Firing Room 2 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a certification ceremony on Aug. 12, 2022. From left are NASA Test Director Danny Zeno, NASA Test Director Carlos Monge, Senior NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding, and NASA Test Director Dan Florez. The ceremony was held to commemorate the certification of the Artemis I launch team following their launch simulation held in December 2021. During the ceremony, senior members of the launch team handed out certificates to individual team members. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test NASAs Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for long-term lunar presence and using the Moon as a steppingstone before ve

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei Acaba visited Marshall April 11 for their honorary Expedition 54 plaque hanging ceremony and to provide valuable feedback of their on-orbit science investigations with the Payload Operations and Integration Center team. Chris Buckley is awarded privilege of hanging Mission 54 placque, shown here with Astronaut Mark Vande Hei (L) and Astronaut Joe Acaba

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Melanie Saunders and former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq after the NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. The lander sent a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at approximately 3 p.m. EST (noon PST) after touching down on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitila. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

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