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  • Space Flight Operations Facility
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  • Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a control room and related communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA's Deep Space Network is operated from this facility. The SFOF has monitored and controlled all interplanetary and deep space exploration for NASA and other international space agencies since 1963. The facility also acted as a backup communications facility for Apollo missions. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Public tours are available with advanced planning.
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long degrees
  • 118
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lat minutes
  • 12
Built
  • 1963
designated nrhp type
  • 1985-10-03
long seconds
  • 25.010000
Name
  • Space Flight Operations Facility
Caption
  • Interior photograph of the control room at the Space Flight Operations Facility, with tables of monitors and workstations arrayed facing several large wall-mounted monitors.
locmapin
  • California
nrhp type
  • nhl
long direction
  • W
refnum
  • 85002814
added
  • 1985-10-03
Governing body
Area
  • 122074
lat seconds
  • 3.910000
long minutes
  • 10
Architect
lat degrees
  • 34
lat direction
  • N
Location
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
abstract
  • Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF) is a control room and related communications equipment areas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA's Deep Space Network is operated from this facility. The SFOF has monitored and controlled all interplanetary and deep space exploration for NASA and other international space agencies since 1963. The facility also acted as a backup communications facility for Apollo missions. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Public tours are available with advanced planning.