mission control
Space flight hub
Mission control is the command center that monitors and directs aerospace flights, especially crewed space missions.
Ground-based teams at mission control communicate with astronauts, track spacecraft systems, and coordinate responses to problems: Houston, we have a problem was directed to NASA's mission control.
Informally, mission control refers to whoever's coordinating a complex operation: Check with mission control before you start moving furniture.
- HoustonTexas's largest city
- telemetryDistant automated data collection
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- orbitCurved celestial path
- consoleComfort in distress
Apollo 13 · problem solved · Neil Armstrong · alert · NASA · space race · flight director · Buzz Aldrin · emergency response · command post · trajectory · all systems go · go for launch · real-time monitoring · screen · switch · launch pad · data visualization
- space operationsrocket launch, docking, spacewalk, EVA, landing
- Cosmodromelaunch pad, launchpad, launch tower, gantry, Soyuz
- controlcommand, management, supervision, guidance, steering
- spacespace, sun, moon, stars, star
- aerospaceairplane, helicopter, rocket, rockets, spacecraft
- military termsarmy, navy, air force, marines, soldier
mission controlspacecraft
Vehicle for outer space
space vehicle · capsule · orbiter · rocket · space station
mission controlfield operations
Work performed at location
ground crew · boots on the ground · operatives · front line · astronauts
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