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Philip Member Posts: 6002 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001	posted 09-13-2017 06:51 AM We all know that each Apollo flight started with the Launch Control Center (LCC) at the Cape until the booster had cleared the launch tower, when responsibility was handed over to the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas... Lesser known is the Goddard Space Flight Center Operations Control in Greenbelt, Maryland. Was that intended as a backup facility?
Jim Behling Member Posts: 1488 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Registered: Mar 2010	posted 09-13-2017 09:36 AM Goddard operated the Manned Space Flight Network and it would have a control center.
Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 986 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011	posted 10-09-2017 12:47 PM Indeed the STADAN (Spaceflight Tracking And Data Acquisition Network) was located in Greenbelt, Maryland and was an integral part of manned and unmanned space flights.
Jim Behling Member Posts: 1488 From: Cape Canaveral, FL Registered: Mar 2010	posted 10-09-2017 07:15 PM At the time of Apollo 11, STADAN was separate from the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN). They were combined in 1971 to form STDN.

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