This will aid spacecraft operators with planning their mission operations around periods of expected communication disruption.

Beyond the window, the scene below looked like a mission operations amphitheater he had once seen on Earth.

NASA recently agreed to extend mission operations another two years.

The last day for mission operations on Ulysses was June 30, 2009.

For Lunney, this represented a return to his roots in mission operations, which he had left twenty years before.

"The whole flight is going very well, with no problems to speak of," said Lee Briscoe, mission operations director.

Your responsibility will be to supervise multiple stations, including engineering, environmental, sciences, and mission operations.

He rerouted power from secondary systems to allow for continuous transportation without interfering with current mission operations.

Maybe they called it their mission operations room or their monitoring and control area.

As an astronaut, he held management positions relating to spacecraft development, acquisition, flight safety and mission operations.