Space Flight Operations Facility

Space Flight Operations Facility

Infobox_nrhp2 | name =Space Flight Operations Facility
nhl=yes


caption = Interior photograph of the control room at the Space Flight Operations Facility, with tables of monitors and workstations arrayed facing several large wall-mounted monitors.
location= Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
lat_degrees = 34
lat_minutes = 12
lat_seconds = 3.91
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 118
long_minutes = 10
long_seconds = 25.01
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =122,074 square feet
built =1963
architect= NASA
architecture=
designated_nhl= October 3, 1985cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1931&ResourceType=Building
title=Space Flight Operations Facility |accessdate=2008-02-13|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 03, 1985cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = NASA
refnum=85002814

Space Flight Operations Facility is a control room and related communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It has monitored and controlled most interplanetary and deep space exploration for NASA since 1963.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/85002814.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Space Flight Operations Facility] |32 KB|date=May 15, 1984 |author=Harry A. Butowsky |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/85002814.pdf "Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 1976, 1981, and 1983"] |32 KB]

Public tours are available with advanced planning. [ [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/pt.cfm Public Tours at JPL] ]

ee also

A list of other NASA facilities:

* Jet Propulsion Laboratory
* Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility
* Spacecraft Magnetic Test Facility
* Sonny Carter Training Facility
* Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
* Dryden Flight Research Center
* NASA Ames Research Center

References

External links

* [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Official Site]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/aviation/ Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service "Discover Our Shared Heritage" Travel Itinerary]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky4/space22.htm Man in Space, a NHL Theme study]


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