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Flight controllers positions and procedures at the
Mission Control Center,
Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston, Texas (now the
Johnson Space Center) are described during the aborted flight of
Apollo 13 in April,
1970.
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NASA's
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center (
MCC-H), also known by its radio callsign,
Houston, is the facility at the
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas that manages flight control for
America's human space program, currently involving astronauts aboard the
International Space Station (
ISS). The center is named after Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., a retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's
Mission Control operation
...
Because Houston is a hurricane-sensitive area, NASA has basic back-up facilities at the
Kennedy Space Center as well as a location at the
Backup Control Center Huntsville Operations Support Center (BCC-HOSC)...
Gemini and
Apollo (1965-1975)
Located in
Building 30 at the Johnson Space Center (known as the Manned Spacecraft Center until
1973), the Houston
MCC was first used in June
1965 for Gemini 4. It housed two primary rooms known as
Mission Operation Control Rooms (
MOCR, pronounced "moh-ker").
These two rooms controlled all Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and
Space Shuttle flights up to
1998. Each consisted of a four-tier auditorium, dominated by a large map screen, which, with the exception of Apollo lunar flights, had a
Mercator projection of the
Earth, with locations of tracking stations, and a three-orbit "sine wave" track of the spacecraft in flight. Each MOCR tier was specialized, staffed by various controllers responsible for a specific spacecraft system.
MOCR 1, housed on the second floor of Building 30, was used for Apollo 7, the Skylab and the
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project missions.
MOCR 2 was used for all other Gemini and Apollo flights (except Gemini 3) and was located on the third floor. As the flight control room for
Apollo 11, the first manned moon landing, MOCR 2 was designated a
National Historic Landmark in
1985. It was last used in
1992 as the flight control room for
STS-53 and was subsequently converted back almost entirely to its Apollo-era configuration and preserved for historical purposes...
After the move from the Cape MCC to the Houston MCC in 1965, the new MOCRs, which were larger and more sophisticated than the single Cape MCC, consisted of four rows, with the first row, later known as "the Trench" (a term coined by Apollo-era RETRO controller
John Llewellyn, which, according to
Flight Director Eugene Kranz, reminded him of the firing range during his years as a
USAF officer). It was occupied by the BOOSTER, RETRO,
FIDO, and
GUIDO controllers. During Gemini, the BOOSTER position was handled by both an engineer from
Martin Marietta and an astronaut, while all missions from Apollo 7 used engineers from the
Marshall Space Flight Center. The second row, after
Project Gemini, consisted of the SURGEON,
EECOM, and
CAPCOM. The EECOM, which replaced the ENVIRONMENTAL controller and some of the SYSTEMS controller's functions, monitored the spacecraft's electrical and environmental systems. Like the CAPCOMs during
Mercury, all CAPCOMs in the Houston MCC were astronauts.
On the other side of the aisle of the second row were controllers who monitored specific parts of Gemini, Apollo, Skylab,
ASTP and
Space Shuttle missions. During the
Gemini program, the two
Agena controllers monitored the Agena upper stage used as a docking target from Gemini 8 through Gemini 12. For the Apollo lunar flights, the TELMU and
CONTROL controllers monitored the
Lunar Module. During Skylab, the EGIL (pronounced "eagle") monitored Skylab's solar panels, while the EXPERIMENTS controller monitored experiments and the telescopes in the
Apollo Telescope Mount. The PAYLOAD and EXPERIMENTS controllers monitored Space Shuttle operations. Another controller, the
INCO, monitored the spacecraft's communications and instrumentation.
The third row consisted of the
PAO, PROCEDURES, and the
FAO (flight activities officer), who coordinated with the flight schedule. The
AFD (assistant flight director) and the flight director were also located on the third row.
The fourth row, like the old Cape MCC's third row, was reserved for NASA management...
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