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S71-41357 (26 July 1971) --- An overall, wide-angle lens view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in...
ISS01-E-5085 (December 2000) --- Cosmonaut Yuri P. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander for Expedition One, communicates with...
S71-41759 (2 Aug. 1971) --- A partial view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control...
iss073e0416906 (July 21, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim tests space-to-ground...
AeroVironment engineers and technicians closely monitor flight data in the ground control station during the...
Scaled Composites' Doug Shane examines the screen of his ground control station during tests in New Mexico. Shane...
STS064-311-031 (10 Sept. 1994) --- Astronaut Mark C. Lee, STS-64 mission specialist, at a Payload General Support...
AeroVironment pilot Wyatt Sadler controls the Pathfinder-Plus flying wing from a small console, video and computer...
Josh Waters (left), ground test conductor, and Teresa Annulis, assistant ground test conductor, participate in an...
Inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 29, 2020, engineer Danny Zaatari, with Exploration...
Inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 29, 2020, engineer Danny Zaatari, with Exploration...
Inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 29, 2020, engineer Danny Zaatari, with Exploration...
Inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 29, 2020, engineer Danny Zaatari, with Exploration...
Inside the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 29, 2020, engineer Danny Zaatari, with Exploration...
STS041-02-035 (6-10 Oct 1990) --- A fish-eye lens view shows two of STS-41's three mission specialists on the flight...
From left to right, Joe Novitsky, Martin Schnetzer, Troy Akseraylian and Will Booker, environmental control systems...
Ales-cia Winsley, a guidance, navigation and control engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
John McClelland, an engine controllers engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, participates in an...
Inside the Launch Control Center’s Firing Room 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Ryan Bowers, a ground...
Michael Dennison, left, and James Ross, ground cooling system engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
NASA's Ikhana unmanned science aircraft ground control station includes consoles for two pilots and positions for...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
NASA has come a long way since the Apollo program when there was only one woman — JoAnn Morgan — working in Firing...
Engineers with Exploration Ground Systems at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida work on software for the launch...