Space 2019: ♫ heiho heiho, it's off to space we go ♫
'Will you look at this?!? Finally a control centre that we can check out! Door on ground level and all!'
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While limited in play and photo use, a good control centre is important to me, because I grew up watching endless tv from the Gemini and Mercury Mission Control Centre. Footage from space was pretty bad. Only once a flight was over, better movies and images became available (but were not broadcast that much and often here).
So for me, space flight back then WAS watching Mission Control and listening to them going though their checklists...
RETRO – GO!
FIDO – GO!
GUIDANCE – GO!
SURGEON – GO!
EECOM – GO!
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Yep, I wanted to spend time and money on getting a good control centre.
Space 2019: ♫ heiho heiho, it's off to space we go ♫
'Will you look at this?!? Finally a control centre that we can check out! Door on ground level and all!'
****************************************************
While limited in play and photo use, a good control centre is important to me, because I grew up watching endless tv from the Gemini and Mercury Mission Control Centre. Footage from space was pretty bad. Only once a flight was over, better movies and images became available (but were not broadcast that much and often here).
So for me, space flight back then WAS watching Mission Control and listening to them going though their checklists...
RETRO – GO!
FIDO – GO!
GUIDANCE – GO!
SURGEON – GO!
EECOM – GO!
...
Yep, I wanted to spend time and money on getting a good control centre.