Does NASA mission control in Houston have a video feed of the launch?

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Does NASA mission control in Houston have a video feed of the launch?

When Challenger was lost the announcer continued reading off stats after the loss of the vehicle.

2007-06-14 07:58:27 · 3 answers · asked by ic0lh1b00 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space

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Yes they do; but some controllers do not watch the video feed as their job is to monitor a screen with data table.
And the data kept still kept coming for the first few seconds after the explosion, as some components were not completely destroyed immediately and kept beaming down reports.

2007-06-14 08:04:01 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Yes they have video. I sat the console at Goddard and we had video.

2007-06-14 16:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Yeah off course they have!

2007-06-14 16:39:35 · answer #3 · answered by Don Eppes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋