The German Space Operations Center is the mission control center of German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Germany.
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STS-61-A
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STS-61-A was the 22nd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It was a scientific Spacelab mission, funded and directed by West Germany – hence the non-NASA designation of D-1. STS-61-A was the ninth
German Space Operations Center
…DFVLR) increasingly concentrated on spaceflight. The human spaceflight received special attention. The GSOC then accompanied two crewed missions: During STS-61-A in 1985, GSOC took over the control of the Spacelab, while flight control continued from NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center was acquired. For the…
Guion Bluford, Reinhard Furrer, and Ernst Messerschmid in Spacelab Module LM2, serving as the Spacelab D1 laboratory.
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The Grand Canyon from orbit
Clearwater Lakes in Quebec, Canada (meteorite impact craters) as seen during the mission.