NASA Flight Control Center

Images showcase NASA flight directors and controllers at their consoles in a control room, focused on missions involving the International Space Station. The atmosphere is professional, with multiple

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).
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).
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51G-S-204 (June 1985) --- Public Affairs Office (PAO) commentator John Lawrence (top right) is pictured at his console in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center during the STS-51G mission.
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Expedition 11 Training with Krikalev/Henderson as their continued their training in the Virtual Reality Laboratory in building 9. View includes: Sergei Krikalev and Henderson using the virtual optics to view the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launch team members monitor the countdown to the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Above the space shuttle countdown clock are five orbiter tributes on display. The tributes feature major accomplishments and significant achievements made by each shuttle, as well as mission patches and processing milestones.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
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On July 16, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch to the Moon, Artemis 1 Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson stands in Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Floirda. Apollo 11 and Artemis 1 launch team members mingle in the firing room.
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PHOTO DATE: 22 June 2010, LOCATION: Bldg. 7, SSATA Chamber, SUBJECT: STB-SS-1913 - SSATA Crew Training for STS-133 astronaut (Timothy Kopra),
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Photograph taken within the mission control room during the 2nd day of the Gemini V space flight, Houston, Texas. Dated 20th century
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S99-05679 (24 May 1999) --- AstronautsClaude Nicollier (seated), representing the European Space Agency (ESA), and John M. Grunsfeld use virtual realityhardware to rehearse some of their duties for the upcoming STS-103 mission, NASA's third servicing visit to the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope(HST). The two mission specialists will be joined by five other astronauts, including a second ESA representative, for the STS-103 mission, scheduled for autumn of this year.
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Overall view of Mission Operations Control Room in Mission Control Center, bldg. 30, during lunar surface extravehicular activity of Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA, NASA, July 20, 1969
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PHOTO DATE: 01-12-10LOCATION: SSTF AND FIX BASE BLDG 5SUBJECT: STS-131 crew member and JAXA astronaut Naoko Yamazaki training during TPS OBSS mission trainingWORK ORDER: 0090-JAXA-01-12-10
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA astronaut candidates Andrew Morgan, from left, Nicole Mann, Tyler Nick Hague, Josh Cassada, Anne McClain, Christina Hammock and Victor Glover listen to a discussion about firing rooms inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a daylong set of briefings and tours of different facilities at NASA's primary launch center. The astronaut class of 2013 was selected by NASA after an extensive year-and-a-half search. The new group will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system.
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Advanced Colloids Experiment, Thermal 5-2, ACE T5-2 International Space Station, ISS, Fluids Integrated Rack, FIR Operations in the Telescience Support Center, TSC
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The entire crew onboard the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen on the center screen of the Mission Control Center Moscow in Korolev, Russia shortly after the successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft with the International Space Station marking the start of Expedition 21 with Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams, Expedition 21 Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev, and Spaceflight Participant Guy Laliberté, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.
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Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos is seen after the opening of the hatches between the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft and the International Space Station on the screens in 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. Hatches were opened at 5:55 a.m. EST and Shkaplerov, Scott Tingle of NASA, and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) joined Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and crewmates Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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JSC2001-02115 (31 July 2001) --- The flight controllers for the Ascent/Entryshift for the upcoming STS-105 missionpose with the assigned astronaut crew for a team portrait in the ShuttleFlight Control Room (WFCR) of Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC). Flight director John Shannon (left center) andSTS-105 commander Scott J. Horowitz holdthe mission logo. Also pictured on the front row are spacecraft communicatorKenneth D. Cockrell and STS-105 crew members Daniel T. Barry, Frederick W. (Rick) Sturckow and Patrick G. Forrester. The team had been participating in an integrated simulation for the scheduled Augustmission.
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Perseverance mission manager Keith Comeaux is seen in mission control as he and the Perseverance Mars river team monitor the spa crafts approach and landing on Mars, 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.
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'Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice - image of Eric James and Jay Schiebe
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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.
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Photo Date: April 12, 2010Location: Bldg. 30 S, WFCRSubject: STS-131 Planning FCR Team - Flight Director Ginger Kerrick
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Date: 05-10-13Location: Bldg 30M, Rm 119 IMMTSubject: IMMT meeting for ISS discussing the status of the ammonia leak on Space Station during Expedition 35.
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PHOTO DATE: 06-15-13LOCATION: B 30 - FCR 1 SUBJECT: ATV - 4 DOCKING DURING EXP 36
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JSC2000-06247 (September 2000)--- Flight director Bill Reeves, at right foreground, and the fifty-odd flight controllers who support his STS-106 planning team pose for their group portrait in Houston's Mission Control Center.
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PHOTO DATE: 05-14-10LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - WFCRSUBJECT: STS-132/ULF4 WFCR Flight Controllers on Console During Launch with Flight Director Richard Jones
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Cassini NASA Social attendees speak with members of the Cassini mission team in the Charles Elachi Mission Control Center in the Space Flight Operation Center, Thursday, Sept. 14, 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 will deliberately plunge 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.
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JSC2001-E-25111 (16 August 2001) --- Flight directors John Shannon (left foreground), Kelly Beck, and Steve Stich monitor the data displayed at their consoles in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston’s Mission Control Center (MCC). At the time this photo was taken, STS-105 mission specialists Daniel T. Barry and Patrick G. Forrester were performing the first of the two scheduled space walks to perform work on the International Space Station (ISS).
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A monitor in the mission control room shows a visualization of Cassini as it makes its 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.
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Monitors show the status of NASA's Deep Space Network ahead of the Mars InSight landing, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 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.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, right, and NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, watch 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.
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JSC2010-E-185492 (12 Nov. 2010) --- NASA astronauts Michael Fincke (seated left) and Andrew Feustel, both STS-134 mission specialists, wearing liquid cooling and ventilation garments that complement the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits, participate in a training session in the simulation control area in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at the Sonny Carter Training Facility near NASA's Johnson Space Center. NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff, mission specialist, is visible in the background.
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FROM LEFT, EUGENA GOGGANS AND MELISSA HOPPER, BOTH STOWAGE ENGINEERS, AND LYBREASE WOODARD, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE MISSION OPERATIONS LAB, GREET DR. ELLEN OCHOA IN THE PAYLOAD OPERATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER FOR THE ISS
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New Horizons mission managers: Chris DeBoy, left, Mark Kochte, Rick Shelton, and Michael Vincent, 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.
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Photo Date: 02-04-2010Location: Bldg. 30, WFCRSubject: STS-130 / 20A Flight Directors
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NASA GPM Systems team members, Tim Grunner, left, Harry Culver, 2nd from left, and, Liza Bartusek, right, talk, along with with GPM Testing team member Beth Weinsteen, during 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.
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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.
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PHOTO DATE: 07-06-11LOCATION: Bldg. 30SUBJECT: STS-135 Flight Controllers on Console WORK ORDER:01910-BS___STS 135 FLIGHT DIRECTORS-07-06-11
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NASA Monsoon Multidisciplinary analysis (NAMMA) deployment, Sal Island, Cape Verde Africia
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DATE: 1-15-14LOCATION: Building 9N, VR LabSUBJECT: Expedition 40/41 crew training with 38S/Swanson and Skvortsov and 39S/Suraev and Gerst.
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The Dark Room is seen as the Mars InSight and Mars Cube One (MarCO) teams prepare for a landing on Mars, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 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.
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COllaborative Modeling for Parametric Assessment of Space Systems, COMPASS, Laboratory
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JSC2007-E-095908 (31 Oct. 2007) --- The members of the STS-120 Orbit 2 flight control team pose for a group portrait in the space shuttle flight control room of Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC). Flight director Mike Moses holds the STS-120 mission logo.
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JSC2000-E-22733 (10 September 2000) ---Marc Ferring, an ISS flight director,monitors closely the rendezvous and docking operations of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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Swedish Delegation Visits GSFC - May 3, 2017 - Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences listen a presentation in Goddard's Network Integration Center.
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Photo Date: 02-04-2010Location: Bldg. 30, WFCRSubject: STS-130 / 20A Flight Directors
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Reportage on the observatory accredited by the French Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Ministry to provide surveillance and information on air quality in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area of France. A map showing concentration of nitrogen dioxide in Lyon.
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PHOTO DATE: 01-15-10LOCATION: Bldg 16, DST 10 SUBJECT: STS-131 crew member and JAXA astronaut Naoko Yamazaki training SSRMS PROF in Bldg. 16 with instructor Joseph M. Nguyen
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Janine Captain, at right, principal investigator for NASAs Mass Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo) and Kevin Smith, software team and science team liaison at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, confer during a joint simulation of the Peregrine One Mission on March 26, 2021, where MSolo is connected from inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to Astrobotics mission control facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. MSolo is a commercial off-the-shelf mass spectrometer modified to work in space and it will help analyze the chemical makeup of landing sites on the Moon, as well as study water on the lunar surface. This was the first mission round of simulations for Peregrine Mission One to develop and refine procedures between Astrobotics Peregrine Lander and MSolo. Later, there will be other simulations with multiple instruments. Peregrine Mission One will be one of NASAs first Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery Service (CLPS) missions where under the Ar
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JSC2005-E-31938 (3 August 2005) --- STS114 Lead Flight Director Paul Hill watches televised extravehicular activity (EVA) involving the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Discovery, currently visiting the International Space Station.
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Members of the Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) Flight Test team perform a drop test of data recording devices about 10 miles off the coast of NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. These devices, called Ejectable Data Recorders (EDRs), were tossed out of a helicopter hovering 5,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean and retrieved by recovery boats. The AA-2 Flight Test team is evaluating how the systems in the devices react to elements encountered from the sky to the ocean. In April 2019, the EDRs will eject from the Orion test article during a scheduled test of the spacecrafts Launch Abort System (LAS).
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks to multiple media outlets about Mars InSight, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 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. InSight is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately noon PST (3 p.m. EST) on Nov. 26.
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PHOTO DATE: 05-17-11LOCATION: Bldg. 30 south - (Rooms)SUBJECT: STS-134 Orbit 2 flight controllers on consoles with Flight Director Paul DyeWORK ORDER: 01245-JB-BS_STS-134-Orbit2-Console_05-17-11
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Joint Information Center (JIC), Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Radiation Control Center (RADCC) members prepare for the launch of NASAs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on July 30, 2020, at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JIC members include representatives on the local, regional and national level. Mars 2020 launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff was at 7:50 a.m. EDT. The rover is part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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Daily weather analysis at the airfield in St. Johns Canada were essential for planning the days flight operations. The airborne side of the NAAMES project travels with two full-time meteorologists. --- The b a href= http //naames.larc.nasa.gov/ rel= nofollow North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study /a /b (NAAMES) is a five year investigation to resolve key processes controlling ocean system function, their influences on atmospheric aerosols and clouds and their implications for climate. Michael Starobin joined the NAAMES field campaign on behalf of Earth Expeditions and NASA Goddard Space Flight Centers Office of Communications. He presented stories about the important, multi-disciplinary research being conducted by the NAAMES team, with an eye towards future missions on the NASA drawing board. This is a NAAMES photo essay put together by Starobin, a collection of 49 photographs and captions.
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EM-1 Countdown Demonstration with Cryogenic Loading Simulation
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Inside a mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members displayed their joy as the spacecraft successfully completed a complex series of steps to safely touch down on the Martian surface. JPL built and manages operations of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's 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 (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human exp
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Life from other Worlds' with McNair Middle School TROV robot explores under Antarctic ice-image during demo with students operating TROV
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JSC2001-02225 (17 August 2001) --- The members of the STS-105/ISS 7A.1 Orbit 2 team pose for a group portrait in the International Space Station (ISS) flight control room (BFCR) in Houston’s Mission Control Center (MCC). Orbit 2 flight director Rick LaBrode (front right) holds the STS-105 mission logo, and Astronaut Joan E. Higginbotham, ISS spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), holds the ISS 7A.1 mission logo.
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Joint Information Center (JIC), Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Radiation Control Center (RADCC) members prepare for the launch of NASAs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on July 30, 2020, at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JIC members include representatives on the local, regional and national level. Mars 2020 launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Liftoff was at 7:50 a.m. EDT. The rover is part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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Mars InSight team members all 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.