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Inside Artemis II mission control, the nerve center for NASA’s next Moon flight

HOUSTON, When four astronauts strap into NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years, their safety will depend not just on the vehicle but on a layered network of ...
Space.com

Mission Control 'members only': NASA flight directors don new jacket

There are fewer of them then there are astronauts and no NASA spaceflight would be a success without them at the helm. Yet, if the public knows anything about them it is likely 50-year-old history, ...
AOL

Buckeye leads NASA's Artemis II to the Moon from mission control

As the astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission head home from their trip around the Moon, one Buckeye is making sure everything runs safely from mission control. Jeff Radigan, the lead flight director ...
Houston Public Media

NASA astronauts are returning to the moon. Houston’s Johnson Space Center will get them there

Artemis I flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center during maximum distance from Earth and Moon on Nov. 28, 2022. Jeff Radigan, the lead flight director for the Artemis II mission, sat at a table ...
Florida Today

NASA debuts Artemis control room for astronaut lunar missions. When is the rocket launch?

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 ...
CNN

Behind-the-scenes secrets of NASA mission control

Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida has witnessed the liftoff of several historic Apollo missions, including the one in 1969 that put humans on the moon for the first time, and the ...