PIA21120: Mission Control, 1964


Mission Control, 1964

Caption:

This archival image was released as part of a gallery comparing JPL's past and present , commemorating the 80th anniversary of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Oct. 31, 2016.

When spacecraft in deep space "phone home," they do it through NASA's Deep Space Network. Engineers in this room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- known as Mission Control -- monitor the flow of data. This image was taken in May 1964, when the building this nerve center is in, the Space Flight Operations Facility (Building 230), was dedicated at JPL.

Background Info:

JPL manages the Deep Space Network for NASA. The lab is a division of the Caltech in Pasadena.

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target
System
Target Type
Mission Deep Space Network (DSN)
Instrument Host
Host Type
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Grayscale, Radio
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2016-10-27
Date in Caption 2016-10-31
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21120
Identifier PIA21120