mission control

American  

noun

Aerospace.

1. a command center for the control, monitoring, and support of activities connected with manned space flight.

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Etymology

Origin of mission control

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Two FAA safety inspectors were in Boca Chica to watch the launch at SpaceX’s mission control, said Coleman, who, for Flight 7, was on his laptop in Washington, D.C., receiving updates.

From Salon

Since then the team has been testing its systems from their mission control in Cardiff.

From BBC

Bush apparently decided at some unspecified point that the intelligence agencies needed a “watcher” and thus established The Orphanage: analysts downstairs, “mission control” upstairs, the equivalent of an internal-affairs bureau for the clandestine services.

From The Wall Street Journal

With her hands steady at the controls, her voice calm as she spoke to mission control, Collins piloted the craft through a slow, graceful somersault.

From BBC

The men heard a crackle in their headsets as the radio signal to Mission Control faltered and then failed.

From BBC