STS-100 MCC Launch Activities

JSC2001-E-12120 (19 April 2001) --- STS-100 ascent flight director LeRoy Cain (left) leans over the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) console for a word with Jeffrey Bantle in the shuttle flight control room of Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC). Six astronauts and a cosmonaut, meanwhile, were strapped into their seats in the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Endeavour several hundred miles away in Florida.