Kennedy Space Center has 4 firing rooms, all beside one another on the third floor of the Launch Control Center. At lift off, control of a Shuttle mission immediately transferred to Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, and Mission Control. Firing Room #1, #3 and #4 were all used for Apollo moon missions. Firing Room #2 [...]
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The KSC Firing Rooms in the Launch Control Center
Posted in Launch Control & Firing Rooms, tagged firing room 1, firing room 2, firing room 3, firing room 4, kennedy space center, ksc, launch control center, where is msl control center?, where was mars science laboratory launched?, where were shuttle missions controlled on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
STS-135, Firing Room #4 / Launch Control Center
Posted in Firing Rooms, Launch Control & Firing Rooms, space shuttle, tagged atlantis, firing room, firing room 4, kennedy space center, launch control center, shuttle, sts-135, where is shuttle fired from? on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Go fly! … here’s where, hopefuly, it will happen Friday morning. Here’s a quick visit to Firing Room #4 from where STS-135 will be launched, and from which the previous 20 shuttle missions, have been launched. At lift-off, control of the shuttle immediately passes from the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center, to the [...]
KSC Launch Control Center / & Firing Room #3
Posted in Launch Control & Firing Rooms, tagged firing room 3, houston, kennedy space center, launch control center, mission control center, pete crow, peter crow, peter m crow, pictures inside launch control, seine harbour, where are shuttles launched, where was apollo launched? on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Launch control at Kennedy Space Center has four firing rooms in a building adjacent to the Vehicle Assembly Building, and across the street from Press Complex 39. Firing Room #4 is the most modern and is where the last 20 space shuttle missions were launched from. Just next door is Firing Room #3 which is [...]
