Inside the space shuttle flight control room in Houston's Mission Control Center, four key personnel follow activities at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A, several hundred miles away in Florida. From left to right are Tony Ceccacci and Richard Jones, both flight directors, along with astronauts Barry Wilmore and Lee Archambault, both spacecraft communicators or CAPCOMs. Space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on time at 8:56 a.m. (EDT) on May 16, 2011.
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Inside the space shuttle flight control room in Houston's Mission Control Center, four key personnel follow activities at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A, several hundred miles away in Florida. From left to right are Tony Ceccacci and Richard Jones, both flight directors, along with astronauts Barry Wilmore and Lee Archambault, both spacecraft communicators or CAPCOMs. Space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on time at 8:56 a.m. (EDT) on May 16, 2011.