...into space.As the moment came closer, NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey...the shuttle took off.Two hours later, NASA's mission control center announced, "This is mission control to Monkey...

...unfold and ready itself. A few hours before the rover's big move, Vice President Dick Cheney toured the Mars mission control center and praised the staff as "America's most dedicated and successful scientists and researchers." His visit...

...Winters, the European Space Agency's director for technical operations and support, said at the agency's mission control center in Darmstadt in western Germany. "You will understand there is a certain level of tension in the center...

...week as he watched Mir's descent at the Russian Mission Control center at Korolyov, near Moscow. "Instead of being...Russian news interviews with cosmonauts at the mission-control center. Yuri Koptev, chief of the Russian Space Agency...

...headsets: "Liftoff confirmed." Welcome to the new Mission Control Center for the international space station. Just down...was built in 1995 as part of a new $250 million Mission Control Center. The complex replaced Johnson Space Center's...

...of the program features a centrifuge, three-axis trainer, Apollo Command Module, F-101 simulator, and a mission control center. The $375 cost for the Elderhostel program includes a room, board and transportation for the week. "John...

...the time of the rocket crash, and a real danger that the plummeting spacecraft could have slammed down on the mission control center. The rocket exploded 22 seconds after liftoff from the center in southern China, carrying with it a $200 million...

...which can test satellites in spacelike conditions on the ground. The company is also doubling the size of its mission control center, where flight directors issue commands to spacecraft from a horseshoe bank of computer terminals. Activity at...

...docking with the Progress supply ship for a day, citing a malfunction in an on-board computer. Officials at the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said the latest trouble posed no danger to those aboard the Mir, two Russian cosmonauts and American...

...Russian colleagues were so exhausted that the unloading of a newly arrived supply craft was postponed for a day, Mission Control Center press chief Vsevolod Latyshev said Monday. "The astronauts were very tense, I would even say stressed-out...