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Houston’s Mission Control During Soyuz Launch to Station

Houston's Mission Control During Soyuz Launch to Station
View of the space station flight control room (FCR-1) in JSC's Mission Control Center during the launch of Expedition 40/41 crew members — Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency — to the space station.

JSC2014-E-054446 (28 May 2014) — This is an overall view of the space station flight control room (FCR-1) in JSC’s Mission Control Center during the launch of Expedition 40/41 crew members — Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency — to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Multiple screens at the front of the control room display external views of the launch and internal views of the Soyuz.

Photo credit: NASA