WIKIARCHIVES.SPACE

Flight directors LeRoy Cain (standing) and John Shannon (seated, far left) monitor data at their consoles in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston’s Mission Control Center (MCC). At the time this photo was taken the Space Shuttle Atlantis was about to launch at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Atlantis launched at 3:44 p.m. (CDT) on April 8, 2002. Once the vehicle cleared the tower in Florida, the Houston-based team of flight controllers took over the ground control of the flight.