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Project Gemini Mission Control Center

Project Gemini Mission Control Center
For the Gemini program, a few changes were made to the Mission Control Flight Control Area layout. One change was to upgrade the old trend charts on both sides of the world map to rear projection screens. The facility continued to be used as mission control during the first three flights of the Gemini program. Once the mission control function was

For the Gemini program, a few changes were made to the Mission Control Flight Control Area layout. One change was to upgrade the old trend charts on both sides of the world map to rear projection screens. The facility continued to be used as mission control during the first three flights of the Gemini program. Once the mission control function was moved to a new facility in Houston for Gemini IV, the center’s function switched to launch control and tracking.

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March 9, 1964