Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

Episode 369, Mission Control, Station in Motion. I'm Dane Turner, 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, 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 the depictions of mission control in the movies,

or seen video of it during a NASA broadcast. The mission control team is there 24-7-365, monitoring all of the systems

and activities aboard our laboratory in orbit. There are a lot of consoles in the International

Space Station MCC, and each one has an important job.

We'll be dedicating six episodes to covering the positions in Space Station Mission Control,

what they do, and how they work together to keep the orbiting lab operating smoothly.

In this episode, we'll be covering the Attitude Determination and Control Officer, or ADCO, represented by Krista Farrell,

the Trajectory Operations and Planning Officer, or Topo, represented by Joe Scalora,

and the Station Power Articulation and Thermal Control Officer, or Spartan, represented by Logan Burke.

Together these consoles cover the space station's motion

and power controls, from the attitude of the station, the speed and direction it flies, to the

creation and storage of the electricity that powers everything aboard. Let's find out how they

keep the ISS flying. Recorders to flight speed, ADCO.

Go.

Topo.

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