jsc2010e046802

STS-131 Flight Controllers on console during the launch of Discovery on STS-131.  Photo Date: April 5, 2010.  Location: Building 30 south - WFCR.  Photographer: Robert Markowitz.

JSC2010-E-046802 (5 April 2010) --- An overall view of the space shuttle flight control room in the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center during launch countdown activities a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 launch. Visible in the foreground (from the left) are flight directors Tony Ceccacci and Bryan Lunney; along with astronauts Rick Sturckow and George Zamka, both spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM).