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| JSC2002-E-08157 (1 March 2002) --- Astronaut Kent V. Rominger
(seated), and LeRoy Cain are photographed at the Mission Operation Directorate
(MOD) console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston's Mission
Control Center (MCC). Several hundred miles away in Florida, the STS-109
crewmembers were awaiting countdown in the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle
Columbia on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). As soon as
the vehicle cleared the tower in Florida, the Houston-based team of flight
controllers took over the ground control of the mission. Rominger is the
Deputy Director of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate (FCOD) and was
the STS-109 FCOD management representative in the MCC. Cain was the Weather
Flight Director for the mission’s ascent phase, coordinating weather issues
for lead Ascent Flight Director John Shannon (out of frame). |
