mission control

If the astronauts can, they work faster than mission control predicts.

Every five minutes of the astronauts’ day is divided up by mission control on Earth.

Beppo can communicate with words via a keyboard of icons, but when mission control loses control of the spacecraft, it’s up to Mulaney’s character to tell the chimp the bad news in words he can understand: “Beppo no go home. Beppo go dark. Beppo equals zero forever.”

When the flight director gave the go-ahead, cheers went up from SpaceX employees at mission control.

Every five minutes of the astronauts’ day is divided up by mission control on Earth.