This film offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes view of NASA’s Mission Control during a 1960s spaceflight, likely part of the ...

Many flight directors (and the flight controllers on their teams) bring a sweater or jacket to the control room because ... flight gear from NASA's history. "Tough and competent" was coined by Kranz ...

that’s when you are certified to sit in Mission Control.” How did you become interested in spacecraft? “I’ve been obsessed with NASA since I was little. My room was decorated in an alien ...

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NASA officials acknowledge the recent problems ... “I drive to work and I go to work on Mars.” In the Mission Control room, where staffers monitor transmissions from the current fleet of ...

Brent Humphreys Jupiter guards secrets about the early solar system,” says Scott Bolton, standing in the cavernous and dimly lit mission control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pas ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ... “During this first phase of the commissioning period, the team at mission control at Southwest Research Institute ...

So there we are, loss of 6DOF control, four aft thrusters down, and I'm visualizing orbital mechanics," Wilmore said. Eventually, NASA Mission Control decided to take control of the spacecraft for ...

The astronauts are now not the only group at NASA with a jacket of their own ... They each lead teams who work in mission control, overseeing the continuous complement of astronauts living ...