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July 7, 2011
Flight director LeRoy Cain directs his attention to data related to the Space Shuttle Atlantis and its impending launch from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) several hundred miles away from this Houston setting at the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center (MCC). As soon as the vehicle cleared the tower in Florida, the Houston-based team of flight controllers took over the ground control of the flight.
Topics:
Disaster Accident, Edwards Air Force Base, Manned spacecraft, Space Shuttle program, Environment, LeRoy E. Cain, Mission Control Center, Space Shuttle Atlantis, flight controller, Kennedy Space Center, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA personnel, Space Shuttle, Human spaceflight, Houston
