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Ladies & Gentleman, Meet NASA's STS-123 Flight Control Team

spaceflight.nasa.gov — The members of the STS-123 1J/A ISS Orbit 2 flight control team pose for a group portrait in the space station flight control room in NASA Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, USA on March 19, 2008. Flight director Dana Weigel holds the mission operations logo.

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  • vroom101, on 03/25/2008, -0/+10Via NASA's International Space Station Imagery, JSC2008-E-027336, 19 March 2008
    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station ...
    ( spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-16/html/jsc2008e027336.html )

    One more picture...who's that with arms outspread (screen on the left)?
    http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station ...
    via http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station ...
    ( spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-16/html/jsc2008e027337.html )
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -1/+9Needs more horn-rimmed glasses. 60's Mission Control was stylin'
    • Buckeye17, on 03/25/2008, -5/+4This is obviously a fake... females aren't smart enough to work for NASA's flight control team.
      • ckhw2, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Well... women keep the men motivated, and vice versa. Every workplace needs people of both sexes.
        P.S. add a "/sarcasm" tag if you meant to be funny...
        • theduck71, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1agreed. The only thing, is that I do not see any black's.......
  • vroom101, on 03/25/2008, -2/+34I'm guessing the average IQ for that group is somewhere between 1500 - 3000, I.E.., they're really, really smart.
    • ElAssoWipo, on 03/25/2008, -24/+1Pssst... That's not even 100 per person.
      • KraftDinner101, on 03/25/2008, -1/+24Lol, do you even know what average means?
      • captmorgan555, on 03/25/2008, -1/+11He said average. Ur good maths
      • ElAssoWipo, on 03/25/2008, -8/+2Well since his average didn't make any sense I assumed he actually meant combined I.Q., which would be closer to reality, even if completely wrong.
        • vroom101, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4I'm guessing that the IQ of each team member is between 1500 and 3000, I.E., he or she is über-smart.
        • cawpin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4ElAssoWipo, you must have a REALLY slick forehead.
        • alex7575, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Instead of saying "oh, ***** my bad, dumb mistake", nooooo...
      • BruceDude, on 03/25/2008, -0/+9Your IQ is below viewing threshold.
    • SpenderH, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8It's not like they're all rocket scientists.
    • joebonk, on 03/26/2008, -1/+1i wouldnt say theyre that smart, check out what they did in this youtube video
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2b1D5w82yU
  • vroom101, on 03/25/2008, -0/+91. NASA's STS-123 Orbit 1 Flight Control Team, NASA Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center, 19 March 2008: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ...
    Via http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ...
    ( spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-123/html/jsc2008e027334.html )

    2. NASA's STS-123 Orbit 2 Flight Control Team, NASA Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center, 19 March 2008: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ...
    Via http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ...
    ( spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-123/html/jsc2008e027335.html )

    3. NASA's STS-123 Orbit 3 Flight Control Team, NASA Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center, 19 March 2008: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ...
    Via http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle ...
    ( spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-123/html/jsc2008e027333.html )
    • redfox2600, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3Did anyone else notice the big red box that saids "bad" in STS-123 Orbit 1 on the left screen.
      • cawpin, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1WTF are you talking about? I don't see that anywhere.
        • vroom101, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1It's there . . . look halfway down on the far right of the leftmost display.
  • mrhahn, on 03/25/2008, -2/+19My favourite? The menacing fellow at the back with the baseball bat.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -1/+11The guy with the broken finger must have pissed him off.
    • bluesatin, on 03/25/2008, -2/+0Personally I think the guy with the broken finger is better:
      http://i32.tinypic.com/rshs7t.jpg
      (Not Goatse!)
    • bshensky, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0Proving once and for all that space travel is hard, dangerous work. No disability junkies here, folks.
    • antflyers13, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3How about the asian guy with the sign "hi mom & dad" that he clearly made a few seconds before the picture was taken
    • eoncire, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Um, most disturbing would have to go to the magic 8 ball on top of the CATO desk....



      (wikipedia.org, I myself was not sure what primary role of CATO was....)
      Communication and Tracking Officer (CATO)

      *Responsible for management and operations of the U.S. communication systems, including audio, video, telemetry and commanding systems.
    • whoisjohngault, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3And what about the fat bearded dude in the back of the room eyeballing the guy with the bat?
    • orangekid13, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1he's tech support
  • souljaboytellem, on 03/25/2008, -11/+1Wouldnt' want that job...
    • redfox2600, on 03/25/2008, -1/+10Why the ***** not?
      • Haz63, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3I love it when a reply that you are thinking of posting is already posted exactly the same
      • conartist89, on 03/25/2008, -1/+5because...he's too busy supermanning hos. who would want soulja boy working in NASA anyway.
  • makemoneynotart, on 03/25/2008, -0/+56one guy is holding a bat, another has an injured hand...

    what's going on here?
    • jggr, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3I thought that was a space suit glove, not an injured hand.
      /Didn't look too close, so I'm willing to admit I may be wrong.
    • zantos420, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4they were playing dick cheney & friends
    • jc7012, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4He fell down the steps, that's all...honestly! They love each other, he just got upset...
    • flexhose, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Confirmed, it is a spacesuit glove. Though the ones used in space actually have all the fingers, mostly.
    • monkeyboy1982, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3but what's with the baseball bat? why did he need to take it into NASA, is it fused to his hand or something?
      • BillMoocho, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2He uses it to encourage the rest of the team.
  • bluesatin, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Well it's very nice to meet you NASA's STS-123 Flight Control Team, you should come around for some tea and biscuits sometime
  • tecknoplasma, on 03/25/2008, -2/+24Must have an 8-Ball for those really tough decisions.
  • disasterpiece, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4Really Smart but look at the guy with the glove on!
  • jhuang30, on 03/25/2008, -1/+49dug for the chick with red hair and high IQ
    • aigulf, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2I'm going for the brunette in yellow...behind the guy with the Kibo sign.
  • Magellan, on 03/25/2008, -0/+7And the Magic Eight Ball on the left hand side control desk explains what?
    • jggr, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1Good eye. I say it explains a lot actually. ;)
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Reply Hazy. Ask Again Later.
    • Andrwmorph, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I'm pretty sure the Magic Eight Ball is the one in charge.
  • astland27, on 03/25/2008, -7/+0oh oh, is this a game of "spot the terrrrroristt"
  • krolm, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3There's a viking helmet somewhere in the picture. Can you find it?
    • gmiley, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Oddly, that is one of the first things I noticed as I have one identical to it right here on my desk.
    • 1gunners4, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1For shame on all of them for not hazing the new guy by making him wear it for the picture.
    • EarlOfLade, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1That is NOT a Viking helmet, it's a Hollywood helmet. This is a real Viking helmet: http://www.theknightshop.co.uk/catalog/images/3003 ...

      Viking helmets did not have horns, horns would be a disaster in close quarter combat.
  • dal978, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3lovin' the bottom right dude's tie.
    also lovin' the eight ball on top of the bottom left console.
  • bdanenberg, on 03/25/2008, -10/+0Not a single black guy. Looks like a couple asians, a couple indians, the rest pure as snow.
    • vroom101, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Check out the rest of the photos: http://digg.com/space/Ladies_Gentleman_Meet_NASA_s ...
    • myass666mlong, on 03/25/2008, -3/+1agree ***** NASA
    • bshensky, on 03/25/2008, -2/+0I'm not sure which would be the worse PR: no black dudes, or a token black dude. A sad state of affairs, says /this/ white dude.
    • jggr, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8Not everything is about race. How many blue eyes do you see in their? Why is their only one redhead? Seriously this injustice needs to end!
      /Grow up... the colour of your skin means nothing.
      //At least it does to me.
    • robotobibok, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2There's no room for racial corectness where billions of $ are on the stake.
  • Kash04, on 03/25/2008, -9/+5i'd maybe have sexual relationships with one of those girls.. :-

    i bet the girls get hit on buy all those guys
    • 4rp4n3t, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Um, having sexual relations *generally* involves more than just jacking off to a picture you found on posted on Digg you know...
    • dracostimpy, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3Unfortunately, spellcheck won't save you every time. You are dumb.
  • blakespot, on 03/25/2008, -1/+5Where's the white vest?
  • BoneheadFarker, on 03/25/2008, -0/+4I really want to know the story behind that one guy's finger...
  • zephyear, on 03/25/2008, -0/+17gotta love the guy in the far back just looking in the distance

    • tecknoplasma, on 03/25/2008, -0/+9Looks like Silent Bob.
    • dracostimpy, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1I prefer the guy whom I shall dub Edward Pantyhand until I get a better explanation.
    • whoisjohngault, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0He's eyeballing that other dude's bat
  • FulcrumVitesse, on 03/25/2008, -0/+26That room has got a lot of IQ per square foot.
  • Hindermore, on 03/25/2008, -1/+29Wow, the blond in the front is super cute!
    • djepik, on 03/25/2008, -2/+6Wow, she could STS my 123 any day!
    • scoetrain, on 03/25/2008, -1/+6"Fair at best."
    • jc7012, on 03/25/2008, -2/+4The ladies in general are much better looking then I expected...but i guess someone's gotta get the cofee
    • dracostimpy, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2The brunette in the gray sweater kinda looks like Summer Glau after ***** out a couple rugrats.
  • kraemer007, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Spot the guy with the GIANT head! Is he photoshopped in or is that a Guinness book giant melon?
  • ApolloXLII, on 03/25/2008, -0/+18i think i've seen Apollo 13 too many times... because they're all smiling. for some reason i was expecting them to all be older, serious, sweat beading on their forehead, and smoking.
  • treyd, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2I was just there last week, and when I asked a high-ranking official about the OS being ran, he commented that it was the "Bill Gates Mission-Control Room." Apparently Windows is used everywhere, and upon closer inspection I saw that it was all XP. I thought for sure they had their own custom unix operating system or something, but no, I saw people checking their email in Outlook and surfing the internet with IE...
    • jeuhrn, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5I think as long as they keep it out of the shuttles, they'll be fine.
    • flexhose, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2The PCs are windows. The workstations are unix, hopefully soon to be linux.
      • TomKarpik, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2If they're currently UNIX, I hope to God they don't move to Linux.
        • karolisonline, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1i thought exactly the same, unix, bsd is the type You should look for and linux isn't something very stable and powerfull as you know
  • djepik, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3What's with all the word art on the projection screens?
  • Shiftyeyeddogg, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3"Quick! All attractive women to the front of the group."
    -Mission Director, thinking about the recruitment possibilities
  • rayjitsu, on 03/25/2008, -0/+16Man, government cutbacks are harsh. They're still using mice without scroll buttons.
  • adjacentidea, on 03/25/2008, -0/+6Primarily a young group. Interesting.
  • Weip, on 03/25/2008, -1/+27"HI MOM & DAD!"
    • jonda9, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3Did anyone else notice that's printed on the back of an old computer punch card?
  • sxlixz, on 03/25/2008, -3/+11i'd bone the blonde upfront and the redhead. not the best. but for NASA they're problys the cream of the crop.
  • ikcilabd, on 03/25/2008, -0/+11Dugg for the Cambodian Mullet dude.
  • gcman94, on 03/25/2008, -10/+2wow i found that same pic here
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI
    • makemoneynotart, on 03/25/2008, -0/+8c'mon. you aren't even trying here.
  • jeuhrn, on 03/25/2008, -1/+3I've played enough orbiter to recognize the patterns on the center screen. :D

    (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/)
  • jeuhrn, on 03/25/2008, -0/+3The brunette at front, bottom right wants to make love to the camera lens. That's hot.
  • mgenovese, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1I think I see Dwight.
  • djblast, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2notice how there are A LOT more men than women there...

    hah!
  • amneosis, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2Ladies and gentlemen, they'll be floating in space.
  • makemoneynotart, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5Using a stack of office paper to hold up a monitor. Go tax money!
    • bshensky, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Hey, I wouldn't complain - that's an ingenious way to snub it to Bush's funding cuts. Paper cuts, that is.
      • makemoneynotart, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1I just want the people controlling the cosmonauts and monies we have up there in a comfortable working environment. :)
    • T-Maaz, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2If you want to talk about spending money, those are Aeron chairs in there... typically $800+ a pop for the low-end, well over $1,000 for the executive version. I wonder what the military/government mark-up is on those things.
  • Seafoodplate, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1your cables look like *****
  • brese1200, on 03/25/2008, -0/+5When did Rocket Scientists get cute??!!

    I always wanted to work at NASA....
  • Rwned, on 03/25/2008, -15/+9No black people. They are all busy robbing liquor stores.
    • anachronaut, on 03/25/2008, -0/+2You're an idiot. There was clearly a token black in the back row, where his jungle funk wouldn't offend the camera man.

      (to the humor impaired: I'm kidding about that last part)
  • Julirocks, on 03/25/2008, -8/+2bury me cause i'm a girl

    but dugg cause i was pleasantly surprised that there were many women in that picture!
    • jeuhrn, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1What does it matter?
      • maximm, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1exactly , keep perpetuating the "i'm a girl" ***** and it will keep happening. Now go cry.
  • superfusion, on 03/25/2008, -6/+1Wow. Not a nerd among 'em.
  • ZacT, on 03/25/2008, -7/+2What a bunch of nerds.
  • godplaysdnd, on 03/25/2008, -3/+4Let's hope they know the difference between feet and meters this time.
  • takatoo, on 03/25/2008, -2/+8They are using windows. I hope nothing crashes.
  • WoundedCow, on 03/25/2008, -1/+7Good gravy! These are the folks in charge of something going into space? I've got socks older than most of them.
  • splendid, on 03/25/2008, -2/+9I was more interested in the screens than the faces.
  • deezeejoey, on 03/25/2008, -5/+4I'd tap..... wait... no i wouldn't.
    • nasagrl, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1That's okay, sweetheart. Speaking for the women in the picture, we do just fine without you....
      • scb0825, on 03/26/2008, -0/+1I think the Nasa women in the picture are pretty hot. Hurray for boobies! :-P
  • qster, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1I need those screens
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