How to Use mission control in a Sentence

mission control

noun

• In mission control, people gasped as the beak continued into the surface, which turned out to be soft.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• But the mission control team lost contact with the robotic vehicle just before it was supposed to touch down on the moon.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Apr. 2023
• In the snaps, the 80-year-old rocker is seen smiling in front of the mission control center, which features a sign welcoming him on the screen inside.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024
• Wiseman will be in charge of all that with the support of his three fellow astronauts and guidance from mission control.
  — Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• From that 90-mile perigee, mission control would command the rocket to fire a final time, pushing the station even farther down to fall over the South Pacific.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
• But then, as SpaceX mission control waited to hear a signal from Starship, there was only silence.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2023
• While the probe has continued to relay a steady radio signal to its mission control team on Earth over the past few months, the signal did not carry any usable data.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
• On Friday, the mood in the mission control room was jubilant after the spacecraft’s successful trip to orbit was confirmed.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The lander was boosted out of Earth’s orbit toward the moon over an hour later, at which point mission control took command of the craft, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• But that eleven miles instead became zero miles when the speeding probe smashed into the Moon’s surface, causing mission control to lose contact.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• One half of the screen showed ISRO engineers and officials waiting anxiously in the mission control room.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• By the time those two pink lines pop up on a pregnancy test, your hormones have already gotten the message that something's different at mission control.
  — Christin Perry, Parents, 26 June 2024
• And even humans in mission control rooms back on Earth can’t help the spacecraft in those final, critical seconds before touchdown.
  — Kristin Fisher, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Engineers at the spacecraft's mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, are working to solve the issue.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
• Morris’ Pacific Palisades home became Hunter Biden’s mission control — and remains so to this day.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The Canadian fighter pilot led ISS communications from mission control in 2011, but this will mark his first time in space.
  — Purbita Saha, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
• That forced engineers on the ground to figure out a way to download as much data as possible — an ongoing effort in mission control.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
• The astronauts even received an email from mission control alerting them about the foam strike on the eighth day of their mission, reassuring them there was no reason for alarm, according to NASA.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• Morris’ Pacific Palisades home became Hunter Biden’s mission control — and remains to this day.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• But before Starship could reach orbit, SpaceX mission control lost contact with it and stopped receiving data.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Sixteen minutes later, the spacecraft separated from the rocket’s upper stage, and a round of cheering and clapping erupted in the mission control center.
  — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The laser system will also be able to send and receive procedures, flight plans, voice messages and other communications between the Orion spacecraft and mission control on Earth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 May 2023
• Historic Odysseus lunar mission For a week, the Odysseus lunar lander set up shop on the moon's surface, where its sideways position didn't stop it from transmitting data and photos back to mission control in Houston.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• Formally called a Nova-C, the lander is a hexagonal cylinder with six legs that the space company has operated from a mission control center in Houston.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• The space agency is working on a generative A.I. system that would let astronauts and mission control talk to vessels and perform experiments, reports the Guardian.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 26 June 2023
• In the coming months, the team plans to move and adjust additional portions of the FDS software that was affected, including portions that send scientific data back to mission control.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2024
• Menon later spent seven years at the famed agency, serving as a biomedical engineer in mission control before heading to SpaceX, where she was tapped to become an astronaut in 2022.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
• But with the spacecraft’s ability to properly communicate still unclear, the celebration of clapping and high-fives in the mission control center was muted.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• The sprawling Hawthorne campus is the location of the company’s mission control center and employs thousands of workers who design and build the company’s spacecraft, including the workhorse Falcon 9.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• The Intuitive Machines mission control center in Houston.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024