Mission Controllers are the brains of the operation who keep the mission on track.
The teams that work in Mission Control in Space City have been vital to every U.S. human spaceflight since the Gemini IV mission in 1965, including the Apollo missions that took humans to the Moon. Now, with a permanent human presence aboard the International Space Station, flight control teams of experienced engineers and technicians are on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Flight controllers keep a constant watch on the crew’s activities and monitor spacecraft systems, crew health and safety as they check every system to ensure operations proceed as planned. These highly trained flight controllers have the skills needed to closely monitor and maintain increasingly complex missions and to respond to unexpected events.
