They each lead teams who work in mission control, overseeing the continuous complement of astronauts living and working on board the International Space Station, as well as those on commercial ...

Certified space-nerd and all-around retro-tech guru [Fran Blanche] has just outdone herself with a comprehensive look at how NASA ran the Mission Control “Big Boards” that provided flight data ...

These were the men of mission control, and during missions they all reported to the man known as "Flight." The Person in Charge The flight director, whose call sign on the communications loop was ...

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Johnson argued that Cape Canaveral was overcrowded with military rockets and declared that mission control should be sited at least 125 miles from the launch site. Florida partisans countered with ...

Kranz’s wife, Marta, created the garment that would establish a Mission Control tradition. In 1962, when the Kranzes moved into a Houston neighborhood peopled by other space-program families ...

Astronauts get all the glory, but true STEM geeks know the people at mission control are superstars, too. Don’t believe us? Take a tour of the Apollo Mission Control Center. In 1985, the room ...