With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA's Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room ...

The next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time in over 60 years, is so full of new tech that NASA reportedly needed a new control room just to manage ...

Dozens of engineers will monitor the Artemis II Orion spacecraft along its journey in 2026 while collecting data from the new room inside Houston's Mission Control Center. NASA's Artemis program is ...

The control room is being designed to optimize operator performance during long shifts monitoring a rover on the moon. Researchers are studying factors like room layout, lighting, and break areas to ...

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HOUSTON—Beginning July 1 visitors to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) here can see the newly refurbished Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) that famously oversaw Apollo 11, which delivered the ...

"The people that lived and worked here, the room talks to them," Kranz said. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20, NASA has restored the Apollo 11 mission control center to its ...

An engineering model of CubeRover sits on a table as Astrobotic’s Mike Provenzano (right) discusses the partnership with Mission Control at an April 8 briefing with Mission Control’s Ewan Reid (left) ...

Carnegie Mellon University students built Iris, a tiny lunar rover. When the spacecraft carrying it to the moon malfunctioned, they turned their vacation house into mission control. By Kenneth Chang A ...

Gone are the days of command centers being reliant solely on radios and static maps. Today, AV technology transforms these spaces with dynamic data visualization, seamless communication interfaces and ...