STS-134 Flight Controllers on Console - Launch. Flight Director: Richard Jones

DATE: 5-16-11 LOCATION: Bldg. 30south - WFCR SUBJECT: STS-134 flight controllers on console during the launch of Endeavour with Flight Director Richard Jones PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett

JSC2011-E-044080 (16 May 2011) --- Inside the space shuttle flight control room in Houston?s Mission Control Center two spacecraft communicators discuss the preparations in both Houston and the launch pad several hundred miles away in Florida for the final launch of Endeavour. Astronauts Barry Wilmore (left) and Lee Archambault staff the CAPCOM console for the prelaunch and launch activities. The shuttle lifted off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on time at 8:56 a.m. (EDT) on May 16, 2011. Photo credit: NASA

Photographer LAUREN HARNETT