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STS-26 simulation activities …
Title STS-26 simulation activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC)
Description In JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR), flight directors (FDs) Lee Briscoe (left) and Charles W. Shaw, seated at FD console, view front visual display monitors during STS-26 simulations in progress between MCC and JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5 fixed-base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS).
Date Taken 1987-10-21
STS-26 simulation activities …
Title STS-26 simulation activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC)
Description In JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR), flight controller Granvil A. Pennington, leaning on console, listens to communications during the STS-26 integrated simulations in progress between MCC and JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5 fixed-base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS). MCC FCR visual displays are seen in background. Five veteran astronauts were in the FB-SMS rehearsing their roles for the scheduled June 1988 flight aboard Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103.
Date Taken 1987-10-21
Views of Mission Control dur …
Title Views of Mission Control during MA-6 flight
Description During the first orbit (see Friendship 7 spacecraft just leaving eastern Australia on World Map at front of room) Mercury control personnel were hard at work monitoring the spacecraft.
Date Taken 1962-02-20
STS-26 simulation activities …
Title STS-26 simulation activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC)
Description Overall view of JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR) during Flight Day 1 of STS-26 integrated simulations in progress between MCC and JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5 fixed-base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS).
Date Taken 1987-10-21
STS-26 simulation activities …
Title STS-26 simulation activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC)
Description In JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR), astronauts John O. Creighton (right) and L. Blaine Hammond review their notes while serving as spacecraft communicators (CAPCOMs) for STS-26 simulations in progress between MCC and JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5 fixed-base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS).
Date Taken 1987-10-21
STS-26 long duration simulat …
Title STS-26 long duration simulation in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30
Description STS-26 long duration simulation is conducted in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR). Front row of consoles with Propulsion Engineer (PROP) and Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems Engineer (GNC) are visible in the foreground. CBS television camera personnel record front visual displays (orbital chart and data) for "48 Hours" program to be broadcast at a later date. The integrated simulation involved communicating with crewmembers stationed in the fixed based (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS) located in JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5.
Date Taken 1988-03-30
STS-26 long duration simulat …
Title STS-26 long duration simulation in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30
Description STS-26 long duration simulation is conducted in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR). CBS television camera personnel record MCC activities at Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM) and Flight Activities Officer (FAO) (foreground) consoles for "48 Hours" program to be broadcast at a later date. The integrated simulation involved communicating with crewmembers stationed in the fixed based (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS) located in JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5. MCC FCR visual displays are seen in front of the rows of consoles.
Date Taken 1988-03-30
STS-26 long duration simulat …
Title STS-26 long duration simulation in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30
Description STS-26 long duration simulation is conducted in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR). Director of Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) Eugene F. Kranz (left) and Chief of the Flight Directors Office Tommy W. Holloway monitor activity during the simulation. The two are at their normal stations on the rear row of consoles. The integrated simulation involves MCC flight controllers communicating with crewmembers stationed in the fixed based (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS) located in JSC Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5.
Date Taken 1988-03-30
View of the Mission Control …
Title View of the Mission Control Center during MR-4 mission
Description View of the Mission Control Center at Cape Canaveral during the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) mission. Astronauts John Glenn (left) and L. Gordon Cooper (right) act as spacecraft communicators (CAPCOMS).
Date Taken 1961-07-21
KSC Launch Control Center (L …
Title KSC Launch Control Center (LCC) Firing Room 1 during STS-32 launch
Description During the launch of STS-32 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, members of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch team in Firing Room 1 rivet their eyes on the skies to the east of the Launch Control Center (LCC). Their reward was a glimpse of OV-102 burning its way upward from Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39A. The brillant flame of the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) hurled shadows and patches of light into the firing room's interior. Launch of the STS-32 mission at 7:35 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) marked the beginning of a busy year which could see the launch of as many as 10 missions. View provided by KSC with alternate number KSC-90PC-50.
Date Taken 1990-02-14
View of Mercury Control Cent …
Title View of Mercury Control Center prior to MA-8 flight
Description View of Mercury Control Center prior to the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) flight of the Sigma 7.
Date Taken 1962-09-10
STS-41 Flight Directors in J …
Title STS-41 Flight Directors in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 FCR
Description STS-41 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, Flight Directors pose in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 Flight Control Room (FCR). Seated on the Flight Director console is James M. Heflin, Jr. Standing alongside the console is Ronald D. Dittemore. Data and the ground track map are displayed on the front screens behind the two flight directors.
Date Taken 1990-09-06
Astronauts Grissom and Glenn …
Title Astronauts Grissom and Glenn hold discussion in Mercury Control Center
Description Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (left) and John H. Glenn Jr. hold discussion in Mercury Control Center during Mercury-Atlas 6 preflight activity. Glenn is the MA-6 pilot. Grissom was the pilot for the Mercury-Redstone 4 space flight made on July 21, 1961.
Date Taken 1964-01-07
NASA administrative personne …
Title NASA administrative personnel seen in the Mission Control Center-Houston
Description Flight Director John D. Hedge (left), Chief, Flight Control Division, Glynn S. Lunney (standing left), Chief, Flight Dynamics Branch, Flight Control Division, and James W. Beach, Assistant Flight Director for Gemini-Titan 3, are shown in the Mission Control Center - Houston during the GT-3 flight.
Date Taken 1963-03-23
Overal view of Mission Contr …
Title Overal view of Mission Control Center during Gemini-Titan 3 flight
Description Overall view of Mission Control Center - Houston during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
Date Taken 1963-03-23
Vice President Hubert Humphr …
Title Vice President Hubert Humphrey during visit to Mission Control Cape Kennedy
Description Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (left) during visit to the Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy during the Gemini 3 mission.
Date Taken 1965-04-14
Mission Control Center at Ca …
Title Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy after Gemini 5 launch
Description Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy moments after the Gemini 5 was launched from Pad 19. Standing at right is Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, Manned Spacecraft Center. Seated (wearing dark shirt) is Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart. Other NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Col. personnel also monitor the progress of the flight.
Date Taken 1965-08-21
Views of Mission Control in …
Title Views of Mission Control in Houston during Gemini 4 flight
Description Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Assistant Director for Flight Operations, at his console in the Mission Control Center, during the Gemini 4 flight. He served as mission director and as a flight director (28462), During the Gemini 4 space flight in the Mission Control Center are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (left), Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, and Paul Haney, Manned Spaceflight Center (MSC) Public Affairs Officer (28643).
Date Taken 1965-06-09
Views of Mission Control in …
Title Views of Mission Control in Houston during Gemini 4 flight
Description Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Assistant Director for Flight Operations, at his console in the Mission Control Center, during the Gemini 4 flight. He served as mission director and as a flight director (28462), During the Gemini 4 space flight in the Mission Control Center are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (left), Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, and Paul Haney, Manned Spaceflight Center (MSC) Public Affairs Officer (28643).
Date Taken 1965-06-09
Mission Control Center at Ca …
Title Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy during Gemini 4
Description Shown at their consoles during the lift off of Gemini 4 are (from left) Astronauts Clifford C. Williams Jr., Frank Borman, and Alan B. Shepard Jr. The three astronauts monitored the flight from the Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. The NASA Headquarters alternative photo number is 65-H-927.
Date Taken 1965-06-03
Families of Gemini 4 astrona …
Title Families of Gemini 4 astronauts in Mission Control in Houston
Description The families of Gemini 4 astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II visited the Mission Control in Houston. Left to right, are Mrs. Patricia McDivitt, Bonnie White, Mrs. Patricia White, Flight Director Christopher Kraft, and Edward White. Each of the family members talked with the astronauts as they passed over the United States.
Date Taken 1965-06-09
View of the tracking screen …
Title View of the tracking screen in the Mission Control Center
Description View of the tracking screen at the front of the Mission Control Center.
Date Taken 1965-08-27
Overall view of Mission Cont …
Title Overall view of Mission Control Center, Houston, Tx during Gemini 5
Description Overall view of the Mission Control Center (MCC), Houston, Texas, during the Gemini 5 flight. Note the screen at the front of the MCC which is used to track the progress of the Gemini spacecraft.
Date Taken 1965-08-27
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center when Gemini 6 flight scrubbed
Description A group of NASA and Manned Spaceflight Center Officials and personnel watch a Cape Kennedy press conference being telecast in the Mission Control Center after the Gemini 6 mission was scrubbed due to the apparent failure of the Agena Target Vehicle to attain orbit.
Date Taken 1965-12-15
View of the interior of the …
Title View of the interior of the Mission Control Center at KSC during Gemini 6
Description View of the interior of the Mission Control Center at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during the Gemini 6 launch.
Date Taken 1965-12-15
Mission Control Center durin …
Title Mission Control Center during Gemini 7 flight
Description Interior of the Mission Control Center during the Gemini 7 space flight.
Date Taken 1965-12-07
Christopher Kraft monitors c …
Title Christopher Kraft monitors console in Mission Control Center during flight
Description Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (left), Assistant Director for Flight Operation, monitors his console in the Mission Control Center during the Gemini 7 space flight.
Date Taken 1965-12-07
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous
Description Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. with a cigar during the rendezvous.
Date Taken 1965-12-12
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous
Description Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. completes his notes by congratulating Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Dr. Robert R. Gilruth.
Date Taken 1965-12-12
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during Gemini 6 mission
Description View of Mission Control during Gemini 6 mission.
Date Taken 1965-12-15
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control watch Gemini 8 launch on their screens
Description Personnel in Mission Control watch Gemini 8 launch on their screens.
Date Taken 1966-03-16
Astronauts Young and Collins …
Title Astronauts Young and Collins outside KSC Mission Control Center
Description Astronauts John W. Young (left), command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, the Gemini 10 prime crew during a photo session for the press outside the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Mission Control Center. Both men are wearing their space suits including helmets. Behind them is a large radar dish.
Date Taken 1966-07-16
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 10 flight
Description Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 10 flight.
Date Taken 1966-07-18
Three MSC Officials hold dis …
Title Three MSC Officials hold discussion in Mission Control room during Gemini 11
Description Three key Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Officials hold discussion in the Mission Control room during Gemini 11 activity. Left to right, are Donald K. Slayton, MSC Director of Flight Crew Operations, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Chief, MSC Astronaut Office, and George M. Low, MSC Deputy Director.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Personnel discussing Gemini …
Title Personnel discussing Gemini 11 space flight in Mission Control
Description Discussing the Gemini 11 space flight in the Mission Control Center are: (left to right) Christopher C. Kraft Jr., (wearing glasses), Director of Flight Operations, Charles W. Mathews (holding phone), Manager, Geminin Program Office, Dr. Donald K. Slayton (center, checked coat), Director of Flight Crew Operations, Astronaut William A. Anders, and Astronaut John W. Young.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Mission control activity dur …
Title Mission control activity during Gemini 12 splashdown
Description Watching console activity in the Mission Control Center in Houston during the Gemini 12 spalshdown (left to right), are Dr. Charles A. Berry, Director of Medical Research and Operations, Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., James C. Elms, Director, NASA Electronics Research Center, and Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Manned Spaceflight Center (MSC) Director.
Date Taken 1966-11-15
Activity in the Mission Cont …
Title Activity in the Mission Control Room during launch of Apollo 4
Description Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center during the launch of the unmanned earth-orbital Apollo 4 space mission. The flight controllers are watching the Saturn V staging on the televison monitor. Apollo 4 was the first launch of the Saturn V space vehicle.
Date Taken 1967-11-09
STS-26 prelaunch activities …
Title STS-26 prelaunch activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 FCR
Description During STS-26 prelaunch activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR), flight director Gary E. Coen (right) reviews data projected on large front visual displays. Also projected on the screens are the orbital tracking map and a view of Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103 on the launch pad.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
STS-26 preflight activities …
Title STS-26 preflight activities in JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30
Description Just prior to launch of STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, Flight Director Gary E. Coen (center) confers with spacecraft communicators (CAPCOMs) and astronauts L. Blaine Hammond, Jr (left) and John O. Creighton about the Florida weather. The three will man consoles in the JSC Mission Control Center Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) during STS-26.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
JSC Mission Control Center ( …
Title JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) personnel monitor STS-26 launch data
Description During STS-26 launch, personnel in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) monitor data generated by Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103. In the foreground are the Specialists Console (BOOSTER, EVA, PDRS, RMS, PAM, IUS) and the Instrumentation and Communications Officer (INCO) consoles. At the front of the FCR, the visual displays project graphs and statistics related to OV-103's launch performance.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
STS-26 Mission Control Cente …
Title STS-26 Mission Control Center (MCC) activity at JSC
Description A wide angle view shows flight controllers in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) as they listen to a presentation by STS-26 crewmembers on the fourth day of Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, orbital mission. Flight Director James M. (Milt) Heflin (standing at center) and astronaut and spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) G. David Low (standing at right) briefly look away from a television image of the crew on a screen in the front of the FCR. Heflin, Low, and other flight controllers listen as each member relates some inner feelings while paying tribute to the 51L Challenger crew.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
JSC Mission Control Center ( …
Title JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) activity during STS-26
Description Overall view shows JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) activity during STS-26. In the foreground, flight controllers monitor data at the Public Affairs Officer (PAO) console. Front visual displays include data, orbital ground track, and an onboard scene.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
STS-26 Mission Control Cente …
Title STS-26 Mission Control Center (MCC) activity at JSC
Description Flight controllers in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) listen to a presentation by STS-26 crewmembers on the fourth day of Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, orbital mission. Flight Directors Charles W. Shaw and James M. (Milt) Heflin (in the foreground) and other controllers view a television image of Earth on a screen in the front of the FCR while listening to crewmembers.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
Dr. Gilruth and Dr. Kraft in …
Title Dr. Gilruth and Dr. Kraft in Mission Control Center during Apollo 5 launch
Description Dr. Rober R. Gilruth (right), Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Director, sits with Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director of Flight Operations, at his flight operations director console in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the Apollo 5 (LM-1/Saturn 204) unmanned space mission launch.
Date Taken 1968-01-22
STS-26 landing activities in …
Title STS-26 landing activities in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 FCR
Description During the STS-26 landing, Flight Director Gary E. Coen points to data displayed on console screen at the Flight Directors console in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR). Flight Directors Alan L. Briscoe (center) and Ronald D. Dittemore look on.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
STS-26 Mission Control Cente …
Title STS-26 Mission Control Center (MCC) activity at JSC
Description Flight controllers in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) listen to a presentation by STS-26 crewmembers on the fourth day of Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, orbital mission. Instrumentation and Communications Officers (INCOs) Harold Black (left foreground) and John F. Muratore and other controllers view a television (TV) transmission of the crew on a screen in front of the FCR as each member relates some inner feelings while paying tribute to the 51L Challenger crew.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
STS-26 landing activities in …
Title STS-26 landing activities in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 FCR
Description During the STS-26 landing, Flight Directors Gary E. Coen (left), Alan L. Briscoe (center), and Ronald D. Dittemore (right) view monitor at Flight Directors console. Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is displayed on screen as it comes to wheel stop on Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) dry lakebed runway 17. Flight Directors console is located in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR).
Date Taken 1988-10-03
JSC Mission Control Center ( …
Title JSC Mission Control Center (MCC) personnel watch STS-26 landing in FCR
Description During STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, landing, personnel in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR) monitor heading alignment cone (HAC) diagram and OV-103 runway touch down displayed on front screens. In the foreground is the Specialists Console (BOOSTER, EVA, PDRS, RMS, PAM, IUS) with Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) console next to it. At the MOD console are Flight Crew Operations Directorate (FCOD) Deputy Chief Henry Hartsfield, JSC Director Aaron Cohen, and MOD Director Eugene F. Kranz. In the background, Public Affairs Office (PAO) photographer Andrew R. "Pat" Patnesky takes a photograph of the FCR activity.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
STS-26 launch activities in …
Title STS-26 launch activities in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 FCR
Description During the STS-26 launch, Flight Director Gary E. Coen monitors data at the Flight Directors console in JSC's Mission Control Center (MCC) Bldg 30 flight control room (FCR). Flight Director Alan L. Briscoe, seated next to Coen, looks on. In the background, displayed on a television (TV) monitor Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is seen completing its roll maneuver as it heads to Earth orbit.
Date Taken 1988-10-03
Overall view of Mission Cont …
Title Overall view of Mission Control on first day of Apollo 7 space mission
Description Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Bldg 30, on the first day of the Apollo 7 space mission.
Date Taken 1968-10-11
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