jsc2010e046808

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-046808 (5 April 2010) --- Astronauts Rick Sturckow (foreground) and George Zamka, both spacecraft communicators (CAPCOM) for the STS-131 mission, watch the big screens in 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.