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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“It was a very emotional thing, the first time in the 60 years that nobody was actually in the mission control office there at JPL, because they had to relocate to the emergency center.

We are absolutely blown away by the level of detail that went into this amazing mission control panel that [Jeff Highsmith] made for his son. His kid just started school and needed a desk to do ...

Texas chose Mission Control for its dollar, a theme that proved to be more of a challenge for the mint's artists to represent. The members of the CFA rejected all nine original ideas, asking for ...

A centralized venue for managing some operation. The term was coined for the land-based control center of space vehicles. In 2011, Apple picked up the term when it combined several functions in ...

‘The colour we ended up matching is not necessarily exact to the original, but more that shade after years of use in Mission Control,’ says JSC Historic Preservation Officer Sandra Tetley. ‘It's got ...

This forced the space agency to evacuate the iconic laboratory — leaving the Caltech-managed mission control center for the Deep Space Network, aka NASA's communications hub for missions to Mars ...

A hypothetical new infection called ‘Disease X’ that could spark the next global pandemic is on the World Health Organization’s top ten priority diseases list. It could be even more ...

Java Mission Control is a performance-analysis tool that renders sampled Java Virtual Machine metrics in easy-to-understand graphs, tables, histograms, lists and charts. Originally designed to depict ...