Fellow Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard watches launch at the CAPCOM console in Mercury Control during Gus Grissom's July 21, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7) flight
The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) provided control and coordination of all activities associated with the NASA's Project Mercury flight operation as well as the first three Project Gemini flights (the first two had no crew). It was located on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, east of Samuel C. Phillips Parkway.
The facility was expanded in 1963 to support Project Gemini by contractor Pan American World Airways to provide more meeting space along with space for data analysis, and a large space for a new Gemini spacecraft trainer.[1]
The more complex requirements of later Gemini and Apollo flights forced control operations to move to a larger facility located in Houston, Texas, but the MCC continued to be used for training and meeting space. On June 1, 1967, the Center became a historic stop for public tours, and continued this function through the mid-1990s.
Mercury Control Center during a simulation of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) flight in 1962
582562°W / 28.463082; -80.582562 The MercuryControlCenter (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) provided control and coordination of all activities...
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to stay up that long. The MercuryControlCenter was located at Cape Canaveral in Florida, not at the Langley Research Center in Virginia. The orbit plots...
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