Launch Control Center
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The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Laun
LC-39 Launch Control Center
Firing Room 1 configured for Space Shuttle launches
Firing Room 2 as it appeared in the Apollo era
A Saturn I-B control panel from an Apollo-era Firing Room
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson
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Charlie Blackwell-Thompson is an American engineer. Blackwell-Thompson is the launch director for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program, based at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. She oversaw t
NASA Portrait (2017)
Blackwell-Thompson (center) watches the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery with Stephanie Stilson (left) and Mike Leinbach (right)
Apollo launch engineer JoAnn Morgan (right) speaks with Blackwell-Thompson (left)
Blackwell-Thompson, in the Launch Control Center as the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis I rolls out, March 17, 2022