page_title: Launch Control Center
section_title: Control rooms
hierarchical_section_title: Launch Control Center / Control rooms
caption_attribution_description: English: In Firing Room 1 at KSC, Shuttle launch team members put the Shuttle system through an integrated simulation. The control room is set up with software used to simulate flight and ground systems in the launch configuration. A Simulation Team, comprised of KSC engineers, introduce 12 or more major problems to prepare the launch team for worst-case scenarios. Such tests and simulations keep the Shuttle launch team sharp and ready for liftoff. The next liftoff is targeted for Oct. 29.
context_page_description: The Launch Control Center is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. Attached to the southeast corner of the Vehicle Assembly Building, the LCC contains offices; telemetry, tracking, and instrumentation equipment; and firing rooms.
  LCC has conducted launches since the unmanned Apollo 4 launch on November 9, 1967. LCC's first launch with a human crew was Apollo 8 on December 21, 1968. NASA's Space Shuttle program also used LCC. NASA has renovated the center for the upcoming Space Launch System missions, which are scheduled to begin in 2020 with Artemis 1.
context_section_description: Launch operations are supervised and controlled from several control rooms (also known as a firing room). The controllers are in control of pre-launch checks, the booster and spacecraft. Once the rocket has cleared the launch tower (usually within the first 10–15 seconds), is when control is switched over to the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center.
  Extensive renovation of Control Room 4 was finished in 2006.
  Firing room 4 is currently leased by SpaceX and serves as their primary launch control centre.
caption: Control Room 1 configured for space shuttle launches
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