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- From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Double flight ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.143027.11527@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 14:30:27 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.093505.22310@newshost.anu.edu.au> <1992Jul22.192733.22870@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <81@newave.mn.org>
- Sender: Edmund Hack
- Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
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- In article <81@newave.mn.org> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
- >
- >Speaking of which, when I was last at JSC two years ago, the upper control
- >room was still classified. Now that the shuttle is no longer flying
- >classified missions, what is being done with the second control room?
- >Is it being declassified, can it be made available for regular shuttle
- >flights, or is it just sitting unused?
-
- It was only pseudo classified compared to "regular" MCC. It is smaller,
- has no big gallery and supposedly had better EMI control. Both control
- rooms are heavily used for training. It was not uncommon to see both in
- use on the same day supporting sims. It is being used, mainly for
- training and sim support.
-
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