The Main Control Room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt today
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This room sees launches, landings, mission sims, & more, & has been the scene of some of the greatest days in ESA’s history (& mine).
The spacecraft the MCR talks to are in, err, space
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A few pictures below 