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    A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the...
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  • Mission Control is a feature of the macOS operating system. Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces were combined and renamed Mission Control in 2011 with the release...
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  • A Mission control center is an entity that manages aerospace vehicle flights. Mission control may also refer to: Mission control centre (Cospas-Sarsat)...
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  • Mission: Control! is the debut album by American rock band Burning Airlines. It was released in 1999. The German label Arctic Rodeo Recordings reissued...
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    NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign...
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    and mission success." Houston's Mission Control Center was opened in 1965. It was in part designed by Kraft and now named for him. In Mission Control, each...
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  • JDK Mission Control is an open source tools suite for the Java virtual machine. The tools help finding problems in, and optimizing, programs running on...
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  • Apollo 13: Mission Control is an interactive theatre show about NASA's failed Apollo 13 mission. The show premiered in October 2008 at BATS Theatre in...
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    37°48′35″E / 55.912938°N 37.809743°E / 55.912938; 37.809743 The RKA Mission Control Center (Russian: Центр управления полётами, romanized: Tsentr upravlyeniya...
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  • Mission Control is the second full-length album by Athens, Georgia-based garage rock band The Whigs. It was released on January 22, 2008, by ATO Records...
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    who aid space flight by working in mission control centers such as NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space Operations...
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    landing mission, Apollo 11. He directed the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13, and was portrayed in the 1995 film...
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    Earth) stations, which provide radio interfaces with spacecraft: 142  Mission control (or operations) centers, from which spacecraft are managed: 20  Remote...
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  • The On-Orbit Mission Control will be conducted by the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ground site in Guildford, UK. The United States Air Force Academy...
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  • Mission Control Texas is a 2015 documentary film directed by Ralf Bücheler. The film explores the work of the atheist call-in-show The Atheist Experience...
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    refer to a system for controlling rockets within or above the atmosphere, but this is typically described as a Mission Control Centre. GCS hardware refers...
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    with close coordination with the Soviet Union. Over the years, the mission control center has equipped itself with advanced technology and is capable...
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    its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be...
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    It also houses the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, which has provided the flight control function for every NASA human spaceflight since...
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    The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) serves as the main mission control centre for the European Space Agency (ESA) and is located in Darmstadt...
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  • pull it away from the spent rocket. Three days into the mission, by order of Mission Control, Swigert turns on the liquid oxygen stirring fans. An electrical...
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    Mission Control Space Services (Mission Control) is a Canadian company that focuses on developing advanced software for space, including AI. Mission Control...
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    establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture. His protégé Glynn Lunney said in 1998: "the Control Center today ......
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    used on the mission. A large Soyuz–Apollo monument was constructed outside the Soviet (now Russian) space control center RKA Mission Control Center (Russian...
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  • Within the Cospas-Sarsat programme, Mission control centres (MCCs) are responsible for receiving and distributing distress signal alerts from emergency...
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    lasted for one season. Most recently, he created the NBC pilot for Mission Control, produced by Gary Sanchez Productions for NBC a workplace sitcom set...
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  • Kittinger, who was Baumgartner's mentor and capsule communicator at mission control. These claims were verified by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale...
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    tonnes (280 short tons). Mir and its resupply missions were controlled from the Russian mission control centre (Russian: Центр управления полётами) in...
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    at mission control centres across the globe, primarily the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston and the RKA Mission Control Center...
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    Apollo 8 (category Apollo program missions)
    too close to the CSM and suggested to Mission Control that the crew perform a separation maneuver. Mission Control first suggested pointing the spacecraft...
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