Author Topic: Inside MCC for RMS Checkout (Read 4469 times)

Squid.erau · « **on:** 06/01/2008 06:52 pm »

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to post a few pictures i took this morning from the MCC visitors room. This was roughly between 10 am and 11:30 am CDT. Was very interesting to hear the conversations between the controllers, flight director and capcom in addition to the comms between capcom and Discovery.

Squid.erau · « **Reply #1 on:** 06/01/2008 06:53 pm »

Here is the Flight Director, also lead FD for STS-124 Matt Abbot. Second picture is Nick Patrick as capcom.

Squid.erau · « **Reply #2 on:** 06/01/2008 06:57 pm »

These two pictures are either side of MCC. First picture is the right side, starting with the flight surgeon, then payload deploy/retrieve (PDRS), then EECOM, then i forget who is in the front two rows.

Second picture is the left side, starting with PAO, then INCO and i don't remember who is in front of him. Hmm, i think i need to turn up the resolution on my camera, these didn't come out that great.

Squid.erau · « **Reply #3 on:** 06/01/2008 06:59 pm »

And a final couple, one showing the view from the RMS end effector on the right screen, and the second showing MCC from the top of the visitor room. I hope you like them.

Ford Mustang · « **Reply #4 on:** 06/02/2008 02:50 am »

I'm so.. jealous! Very nice photos, though! You're so lucky! I'd love to go there, even without a mission going on!

Really awesome.

jmjawors · « **Reply #5 on:** 06/02/2008 02:58 am »

Thanks for sharing! Great timing for you to visit during a shuttle mission. Great pictures!

kneecaps · « **Reply #6 on:** 06/07/2008 09:04 pm »

Thanks! Who do you have to be friendly with to get in there?

Malderi · « **Reply #7 on:** 06/08/2008 03:40 am »

Quote from: kneecaps on 06/07/2008 09:04 pm

Thanks! Who do you have to be friendly with to get in there?

Actually, bus tours through the visitor's center, "Space Center Houston", go through there on a regular basis. I'm not sure if they still do during missions, though. All JSC-badged employees can get into the room (it's accessible through a stairway that doesn't require MCC badging), and there's special "viewing hours" - usually about 1.5-2 a day - during shuttle missions.

Moonbase_Alphan · « **Reply #8 on:** 06/08/2008 10:37 pm »

Quote from: Squid.erau link=topic=13290.msg283445#msg283445

I just wanted to post a few pictures i took this morning from the MCC visitors room.

Thanks for posting those!
after seeing these, I realized I had none of my own, so snapped off a bunch this morning and thought I'd share a couple.
Here's one from the visitor's room and one from the front of the MCC looking back at the visitors from the Flight Dynamics console

Squid.erau · « **Reply #9 on:** 06/08/2008 10:50 pm »

Thank you for all the nice comments everyone. As for how I got lucky enough to get in to see it, I am an intern this summer working for the Orion avionics group over at Lockheed-Martin. During a shuttle mission, they have employee viewing hours where anyone with a JSC badge can go in to watch. So, I strolled over there the other day. Next on my list of things to do is finding someone who can get me actually inside the room :p