Mission Control Positions
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- MPSR
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"Mipser"
Multi-Purpose Support Room - FLIGHT
- Flight Director: leads flight control team
- MOD
- Mission Operations Directorate: representative of senior management
- CAPCOM
- Capusle Communicator
- SURGEON
- Flight Surgeon
- PAO
- Public Affairs Officer
- ACO*
- Assembly and Checkout Officer: shuttle-based activities wrt ISS and shuttle paylods
- BOOSTER
- Booster Systems Engineer: SSME's and SRB's
- DPS
-
"Dips"
Data Processing System Engineer: DP systems including STS computers - EECOM
- Emergency, Environmental, and Consumables Management: ECS
- EGIL
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"Eagle"
Electrical Generation and Integrated Lighting Engineer: Fuel cells / electricity / cryo - EVA
- EVA Officer
- FAO
- Flight Activities Officer: crew activites, checklists, procedures, schedules, timelines
- FDO
- Flight Dynamics Officer
- GC
- Ground Controller: Mission control & tracking network
- GNC
- Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Systems Engineer
- INCO
- Instrumentation and Communications Officer: data, voice, and video comm, telemtry, uplinks
- MMACS
- Maintenance, Mechanical, and Crew Systems: APU's, hydraulic systems, landing gear, payload bay doors
- PDRS
- Payload Deployment and Retrieval System: Robot Arm
- PROP
- Propulsion Engineer: RCS / OMS
- RNDZ
- Rendezvous: trajectory ops wrt docking/capture with other spacecraft
- TRAJ
- Trajectory Officer: determines shuttle current and potential trajectories
- ADCO
- Attitude Determinate and Control Officer (ISS): determines ISS orientation and maneuvers station
- CATO
- Communication and Tracking Officer (ISS): all US comm systems
- ECLSS
- Environmental Control and Life Support System (ISS)
- ODIN
- Onboard, Data, Interfaces and Networks (ISS): US Data processing and interface with international
- OPSPLAN
- Operations Planner (ISS): station short-term planning
- OSO
- Operations Support Officer (ISS): logistics support
- PHALCON
- Power, Heating, Articulation, Lighting Control Officer (ISS)
- ROBO
- Robotics Operation Systems Officer (ISS): station robotic arm
- THOR
- Thermal Operations and Resources (ISS): systems that collect, distribute, and reject waste heat
- TOPO
- Trajectory Operations Officer (ISS): station trajectory
- VVO
- Visiting Vehicle Officer (ISS): liaison between ISS and Progress / Soyuz