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    Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt...
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    A launch control center (LCC), in the United States, is the main control facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). A launch control center...
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    The Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) provides a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental...
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    remains with the Launch Control Center until the booster has cleared the launch tower. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center assumes responsibility...
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    mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to...
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    Airborne Launch Control Centers (ALCC—pronounced "Al-see") provide a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental...
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    Launch control is an electronic aid to assist drivers of both racing and street cars to accelerate from a standing start. Motorcycles have been variously...
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  • missile launch control center, used to launch US ICBMs Launch control (rocketry), generic term for a control center used to launch rockets and missiles...
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  • flights Missile launch control center or Launch control center, an intercontinental ballistic missile control facility NORAD Control Center, a Cold War-era...
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    of a satellite launch campaign.[citation needed] The site includes the Technical Center, the Launch Complex, the Launch Control Center, the Mission Command...
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    contains the Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into space. The center also provides astronaut training experiences,...
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  • information from a Minuteman launch control center to an individual missile by communications lines. Prior to the Improved Launch Control System, new missile guidance...
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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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    crawler-transporters to carry mobile launcher platforms between the VAB and the pads, Orbiter Processing Facility buildings, a Launch Control Center which contains the...
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  • usually connected, physically and/or electronically, to a missile launch control center. With the introduction of the Soviet UR-100 and the U.S. Titan II...
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    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 Centre...
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    UR-100N Agni-VI Airborne Launch Control Center LGM-30 Minuteman chronology Missile combat crew Missile launch control center Nuclear weapons and the United...
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    Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy. The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130-million-cubic-foot (3,700,000 m3) Vertical...
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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under...
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  • readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD)...
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    a 20 acres (81,000 m2) vertical launch area and a 12.2 acres (49,000 m2) area for a launch control center and a launch pad directly adjacent to the eastern...
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    the crew in another launch control center must verify the authorization code and turn their keys for the missiles to be launched. A total of four keys...
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    Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pad, supported by a launch control center and systems such as vehicle assembly and fueling. Launch vehicles...
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    Citron" ("Citron Tree") C3I center, and the Israel Aerospace Industries "Brown Hazelnut" ("Hazelnut Tree") launch control center. The system is mobile and...
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  • hardened Launch Control Center (LCC) and an above-ground Launch Control Support Building (LCSB). MAFs were formerly known as Launch Control Facilities...
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  • Landing craft, control (LCC) and Amphibious command ship (LCC) Launch commit criteria Launch Control Center, at Kennedy Space Center Lochluichart railway...
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    underground LCC Launch Control Center (LCC) contains the command and control equipment for missile operations. It is staffed by the two launch officers who...
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  • Missile combat crew (category Nuclear command and control)
    United States Air Force, operate underground missile systems at launch control centers located throughout the country. There are also a select few missileers...
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    Eventually, the missile combat crew and the PTS team evacuated the launch control center, while military and civilian response teams arrived to tackle the...
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    Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (category Launch complexes of the United States Space Force)
    three facilities: a visitor center and two significant Cold War-era sites; a launch control center; and a missile silo/launch facility, formerly operated...
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