JSC2001-E-24999 (10 August 2001) --- Lawrence Bourgeois (left) and Wayne Hale watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) console in the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC). As soon as the vehicle cleared the tower in Florida, the Houston-based team of flight controllers took over the ground control of the flight.
Photographer Bill Stafford