New Mission Control Center Briefing

Live footage shows panelists, Chief Center Systems Division John Muratore, and Acting Chief, Control Center Systems Division, Linda Uljon, giving an overview of the new Mission Control Center. Muratore and Uljon talk about the changes and modernization of the new Center. The panelists mention all the new capabilities of the new Center. They emphasize the Distributed real time command and control environment, the reduction in operation costs, and even the change from coaxial cables to fiber optic cables. Uljon also tells us that the new Control Center will experience its first mission after the launch of STS-70 and its first complete mission (both launching and landing) during STS-71.