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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mission control
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Armstrong, meanwhile, was still searching for a safe landing spot and the tension at mission control was climbing.
▪ It also functions as the mission control centre for the city's street people.
▪ It reminded the sergeant of mission control for some dark and mysterious space flight.
▪ It will post the material, via mission control in San Francisco, on the Internet.
▪ One lot is assigned to mission control and the other to the space station.
▪ The geologists in mission control were not best pleased as they had planned some serious scientific work at the landing site.
Wikipedia
Mission Control (OS X)

Mission Control, formerly Exposé, is a feature of the OS X operating system. First previewed on June 23, 2003 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a feature of the then forthcoming Mac OS X v10.3, Mission Control allows a user to quickly locate an open window, quickly hide all windows and show the desktop, and to manage windows across multiple monitors or virtual desktops. Exposé was renamed Mission Control in 2011 with the release of OS X Lion.

Mission Control (album)

Mission Control is the second full-length album by Athens, Georgia-based garage rock band The Whigs. It was released on January 22, 2008 by ATO Records, on CD and vinyl simultaneously.

Mission control (disambiguation)

A Mission control center is an entity that manages aerospace vehicle flights.

Mission control may also refer to:

  • Mission Control Centre (Cospas-Sarsat), clearinghouse responsible for receiving and distributing distress signals from radiobeacons
  • Mission Control (album) an album by rock band The Whigs
  • Mission: Control!, a 1999 album from rock band Burning Airlines
  • Mission Control, a grappling position also known as the Rubber guard
  • Mission Control (OS X), a feature of Mac OS X

Usage examples of "mission control".

At first I thought it was strange that Mission Control would have turned down the chance to put The Man into a position where he could have remoulded Jewish religious thought.

Except we were marooned, and there had been no contact with Mission Control since lift-off.

But if you turned off the by-play between Mission Control and the Sea of Tranquility, with its deliberately mundane and routine chatter, and stared into that black-and-white television monitor, you could glimpse that we humans had entered the realm of myth and legend.

Well, the success of our mission depends on our ability to communicate with each other and with Gates mission control back in Houston.