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Okay, now back to the podcast. Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, Episode 383, Mission Control, Special Operations. I'm Kenna Pell,

and I'll be your host today. On this podcast, we bring in the

experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts, all to let you know what's going on in the world of

human spaceflight and more. The Mission Control Center, or MCC, for short, is the iconic

epicenter of spaceflight operations. It takes a large, talented team in order to assure the safety

and success of any mission, whether to low Earth orbit or beyond.

You may have seen depictions of mission control in the movies or seen video of it during a NASA broadcast.

The mission control team is there 247365, monitoring all of the systems and activities aboard our orbiting laboratory.

Each day is covered by three shifts of controllers

who do a handover between to ensure that everything runs smoothly. This is the fifth episode

in a series we're dedicating to exploring the roles within MCC in the International Space

Station Flight Control Room. In this episode, we'll be covering four console positions including

visiting vehicle officer or VVO with Dori Tomiko,

Integration and Systems Engineer, or ICE, with Lisa Harris Redman, extra vehicular activities or EVA with Lucas Weidner,

and Robotics Operations Officer, or Robo, with Alyssa Signs.

These flight controllers cover what we're calling special operations. Their

console positions are unique in that they are activated during specific dynamic operational

events, whether that's monitoring station's traffic of arriving or departing spacecraft, venturing out

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