Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center
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| Location | Houston, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°33′29″N 95°5′18″W / 29.55806°N 95.08833°WCoordinates: 29°33′29″N 95°5′18″W / 29.55806°N 95.08833°W |
| Built | 1965 |
| Architect | Charles Luckman |
| Architectural style | International |
| NRHP Reference # | 85002815 |
| Added to NRHP | October 3, 1985 |
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, and was the first Flight Director.
The MCC currently houses one operational control room, from which flight controllers command, monitor, and plan operations for the ISS. This room has many computer and data-processing resources to monitor, command and communicate with the station. The ISS control room operates continuously.
In the event that the MCC-H is unavailable, from a hurricane or other unforeseen event, NASA has a Backup Control Center (BCC) located at the Marshall Space Flight Center and is in the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) at Marshall Space Flight Center for ISS operations. (Unmanned US civilian satellites are controlled from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, while California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages unmanned US space probes.)
All Mercury–Redstone, Mercury-Atlas, the unmanned Gemini 1 and Gemini 2, and manned Gemini 3 missions were controlled by the Mission Control Center (called the Mercury Control Center through 1963) at Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida. This facility was in the Engineering Support Building at the east end of Mission Control Road, about 0.5 mile (0.8 km) east of Phillips Parkway. Mercury and Gemini launches were conducted from separate blockhouses at the Cape.
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