Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Human Spaceflight Collection
General Description:
STS-116 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Description:
JSC2006-E-54730 (21 Dec. 2006) --- A scene inside the Shuttle Flight Control Room in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center during the final deployment of some small satellites from Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay. On a screen (top right) in the front of the control room, a Department of Defense pico-satellite known as Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment (ANDE) is released from the shuttle's payload bay by STS-116 crewmembers and viewed via live television on the ground. A seasonal snowman adorns the top of a console in the control room, perhaps representing the hopes of some flight controller for a white Christmas, unfortunately not in the forecast for the Houston area this year.
image id:
Photo-jsc2006e54730
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
UID:
SPD-SPFLT-Photo-jsc2 006e54730
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