At the mission control center in Beijing, China's leaders watched the craft jettison its rockets and enter its planned orbit.

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Here at the Major League Baseball Fan Cave in downtown NYC, the team has just unveiled its space program-inspired Mission Control Center.

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Capsule Communicator Doug Wheelock said that officials at the Mission Control Center in Houston saw nothing they couldn't overcome technically, but they would have more information in the morning.

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The Super Bowl Host Committee partnered with social media analytics company HootSuite and online marketing firm FSC Interactive to create the NASA Mission Control Center of social media.

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The station's crew, as well as engineers at SpaceX's mission-control center at its Hawthorne, Calif.

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Rob Gold, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was also watching outside the mission-control center.

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In a conference room, looking through a wall of glass into the Messenger mission-control center, Solomon described his fascination with the parched and moon-like planet, which is a sister of Earth.

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He showed up at four one morning at the mission-control-like center where EDS hosts networks for 4, 000 clients -- everything from 7-Eleven's ordering system to data processing for millions of Blue Cross customers.

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Vincent (with us tailing him) was graciously afforded an almost all-access behind the scenes tour of Kennedy Space Center -- mission control was a no-go, unsurprisingly -- which included a pilgrimage to launchpad 39A, site of the impending STS-135 mission, NASA's last in the Space Transportation System (STS, or Space Shuttle) era.

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That's done at ADV's Houston production center-featuring eight soundproof studios with mission-control-style consoles to upgrade soundtracks.

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