Launch operations are supervised and controlled from several control rooms known as "firing rooms". The controllers are in control of pre-launch checks, the booster and spacecraft.

Sep 19, 2023 · The Young-Crippen Firing Room oversaw launches ranging from the first Apollo missions to the first space shuttle mission. It was last used for the liftoff of Artemis I — the first …

This diagram shows Area A in Firing Rooms 1 and 3. In Firing Room 2, the positions of the OMR and OSR were reversed. Throughout 2015, we will be updating this site with detailed …

The Young-Crippen Firing Room, formerly Firing Room 1, was extensively remodeled to serve as a flexible nerve center for several kinds of rockets and spacecraft.

Some of the most dramatic modernization has taken place in the Young-Crippen Firing Room, commonly re-ferred to as Firing Room 1. This Firing Room oversaw launches ranging from the …

Nov 15, 2024 · KSC’s Launch Control Center, located next to the Vehicle Assembly Building, continues its 50-year legacy of supporting launches, with state-of-the-art systems available in …

The LCC was the nerve center for controlling and testing the Saturn launch vehicle and its ground support equipment. A mission's tests and launch countdown (technically a test procedure) …

Firing Room 2 was used for the launches of Apollo 9, 12, and 14, and the final Saturn V launch, the Skylab Orbital Workshop, on May 14, 1973. During much of the Space Shuttle era, Firing …

Before entering the Apollo/Saturn V Center, experience the thrill of the space race with the launch of Apollo 8. Watch history unfold in the Firing Room as the first crewed Saturn V mission …

Dec 3, 2011 · 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 …