jsc2011e062544
July 17, 2012
JSC2011-E-062544 (8 July 2011) --- NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore (left) and Lee Archambault (center) discuss weather and other pre-launch issues with STS-135 ascent flight director Richard Jones in the shuttle flight control room of the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center. Wilmore is the ascent spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) for the Space Shuttle Program's final flight. A few hundred miles away, a four-person flight crew was inside the cabin of space shuttle Atlantis also prepping for the launch. Photo credit: NASA
Topics:
Disaster Accident, Barry E. Wilmore, Space Shuttle program, Edwards Air Force Base, Environment, flight controller, Gregory J. Harbaugh, Spaceflight, STS-1, Mission Control Center, Space Shuttle, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
