Inside Mission Control during the Artemis I launch

This video takes a closer look at footage in the Mission Control room during the Artemis I launch on November 16, 2022. NASA released an edited video clip three weeks after launch; the raw video can be found here:

https://images.nasa.gov/details-jsc20...

As the name implies, Mission Control is where the launch and all phases of flight are monitored and controlled, and it is the best place to understand what is happening, as it happens. The flight control team communicates on several channels simultaneously, but the central one is the flight director audio loop that we can hear during most of the edited segments in the raw video.

In this video, we go through many of the people and things that can be seen in the room and some of the things that we said during the launch on the flight director loop.

Imagery is courtesy of NASA, except where noted.

00:00 Intro
00:48 Historical ascent flight control team video: STS-125
01:42 STS-51F ascent flight control team film
03:45 Ground Control console and history
06:05 INCO console and history
09:02 Flight Director console and front displays
10:05 First calls on the Flight Director loop video
12:48 Terminal countdown calls on the loop
16:21 Calls on the loop during launch
23:28 Flight control team loop approaching Main Engine Cut-Off (MECO)
26:24 Thanks for watching!