Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only
one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends
on years-if not decades-of work by thousands of dedicated
individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer
a friendly link to Earth in the void of space, whose hands maneuver
rovers across the face of planets, and whose skills guide
astronauts home. This book is a long-overdue history of three major
centers that have managed important missions since the dawn of the
space age. In Mission Control, Michael Johnson explores the famous
Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, and the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt,
Germany-each a strategically designedmicro-environment responsible
for the operation of spacecraft and the safety of passengers.
Johnson explains the motivations behind the location of each center
and their intricate design. He shows how the robotic spaceflight
missions overseen in Pasadena and Darmstadt set these centers apart
from Houston. He argues that the type of spacecraft and the
missions they controlled-not the nations they represented-defined
how the centers developed, yet they played vital national roles as
space technology became a battleground for international power
struggles in the Cold War years and even after.
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