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unusual facts about Mission Control



FSU Hymns

Mission Control used the Fight Song to awaken alumnus and current professor Norm Thagard one morning in 1983 while he was aboard the Challenger spacecraft.

John Aaron

He was interviewed in the PBS documentary Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back, and in two History Channel documentaries about Mission Control, Failure Is Not an Option and Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option 2.

Museum of Flight

It includes a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all areas of space research.

Of a Fire on the Moon

After spending time at the space center and mission control in Houston, and witnessing the launch of the colossal Saturn V rocket at Cape Kennedy in Florida, Mailer began writing his account of the historic voyage at his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts during marathon writing sessions to meet his deadlines for the magazine.

Tecwyn Roberts

NASA's concept of Mission Control had previously been developed under the leadership of Christopher C. Kraft.

UFO sightings in outer space

An analysis done in 1999 by former Mission Control specialist James Oberg concluded that all the objects were nearby sunlit debris.


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Carlos Padilla Maqueo

The track contains original audio of the transmission between the Challenger and mission control of the day of the unforgettable tragedy.

Colobot

Houston, Earth Mission Control as well as a spy satellite will transmit valuable information to the player.

ESTCube-1

Mission Control System is currently being developed by the students of Tartu University under the supervision of the company CGI Group.

Golin Harris International

They created "mission control centers" similar to what Pepsi has done for Gatorade in London, New York and San Francisco focused on real-time social media engagement.

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Jim Lovell wrote a letter to TV Guide about the film, saying that the crises in Mission Control were dramatized.

KDRK-FM

On October 11, 2011, at 6 AM, after playing "Go Rest High on That Mountain" by Vince Gill, the station dropped "The Cat" and began stunting with the bell from "Hell's Bells" by AC/DC, a ticking clock, an announcer saying "KDRK Spokane, Mission Control T-minus minutes", and clips of songs from Schoolhouse Rock and Animaniacs.

Mark N. Brown

Brown supported STS flights 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 41-C in the Flight Activity Officer/Staff Support Room of the Mission Control Center.

Near Earth Network

The NEN was slated to support the Constellation Program, including the Ares launch vehicle, NISN (NASA Integrated Services Network), FDF (Flight Dynamics Facilities), KSC Launch Control Center, and the Constellation Mission Control Center (MCC).

On Orbit Mission Control

The On-Orbit Mission Control (OOMC) will be conducted by the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) ground site in Guildford, UK.

Refsmmat

In the hallowed halls of mission control, Captain Refsmmat was a Kilroy-type character, first drawn by flight controller Ed Pavelka as the "ideal mission controller", as an aid to the esprit de corps within the mission control team.

Sputnik 2

If neither had taken place, Russian Mission Control had planned to euthanize Laika with poisoned food, as she would have burned up in the atmosphere during re-entry.

US Orbital Segment

The segment is monitored and controlled from various mission control centers around the world including Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba, Japan, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.