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Mercury Control Center
28°27′47″N 80°34′57″W / 28.463082°N 80.582562°W
The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) was the facility responsible for control and coordination of NASA’s Project Mercury flight operations, as well as the first three Project Gemini missions (the first two uncrewed). It was located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, east of Samuel C. Phillips Parkway.
The facility was expanded in 1963 by contractor Pan American World Airways to support Project Gemini, adding meeting space, data analysis areas, and a Gemini spacecraft trainer.
As mission requirements grew more complex during Gemini and the Apollo program, flight control operations were transferred to the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas. The MCC remained in use for training and meetings, and was opened to public tours on June 1, 1967, continuing in that role through the mid-1990s.
The MCC was organized into three rows and was smaller and simpler than subsequent control centers. It needed only to support a mission of no more than 36 hours with a spacecraft less complex than those used on future missions. Positions included those for monitoring the spacecraft and astronauts during flight as well as positions for supporting the launch and recovery of the capsule.
The MCC also featured a large backlit status map for display of the capsule position. Unlike later mission control centers which featured computer generated graphics, this Mercury-era display operated with a physical two-dimensional representation of the capsule suspended and lit in front of the map.
More modern mission control centers were split between launch control, which is located at the launch site such as Cape Canaveral, and mission control which is located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs or at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for unmanned missions.
Though the MCC provided command and control, it was not the only facility involved in supporting Mercury or Gemini flights. The Computing and Communications Center was located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and provided computing power for missions.
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Mercury Control Center
28°27′47″N 80°34′57″W / 28.463082°N 80.582562°W
The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) was the facility responsible for control and coordination of NASA’s Project Mercury flight operations, as well as the first three Project Gemini missions (the first two uncrewed). It was located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, east of Samuel C. Phillips Parkway.
The facility was expanded in 1963 by contractor Pan American World Airways to support Project Gemini, adding meeting space, data analysis areas, and a Gemini spacecraft trainer.
As mission requirements grew more complex during Gemini and the Apollo program, flight control operations were transferred to the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas. The MCC remained in use for training and meetings, and was opened to public tours on June 1, 1967, continuing in that role through the mid-1990s.
The MCC was organized into three rows and was smaller and simpler than subsequent control centers. It needed only to support a mission of no more than 36 hours with a spacecraft less complex than those used on future missions. Positions included those for monitoring the spacecraft and astronauts during flight as well as positions for supporting the launch and recovery of the capsule.
The MCC also featured a large backlit status map for display of the capsule position. Unlike later mission control centers which featured computer generated graphics, this Mercury-era display operated with a physical two-dimensional representation of the capsule suspended and lit in front of the map.
More modern mission control centers were split between launch control, which is located at the launch site such as Cape Canaveral, and mission control which is located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs or at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for unmanned missions.
Though the MCC provided command and control, it was not the only facility involved in supporting Mercury or Gemini flights. The Computing and Communications Center was located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and provided computing power for missions.