Sept. 21, 2005, 11:05PM
NASA
Mission Control shut down
Space station will be monitored from Russian site
By MARK CARREAU
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Hurricane Rita's approach spurred NASA to close Mission Control at the
Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, leaving oversight of the
international space station and its two-man crew to a Russian control
facility outside Moscow.

The 15,000-person center near Clear Lake was closed to all but a small
security team monitoring the control center.

"All the systems on the space station are operating fine," said James
Hartsfield, a space center spokesman. "This is a fairly simple
emergency plan." ...

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