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It's Mission Control once the spacecraft clears the launch tower--and only for manned missions, I think. (Sorry, I'm a space geek!) WeirdNet is a little too gung-ho about this--it's not the only, or even the main, site of the National Aeronautics and Space Admin...
NASA Mission Control.
The H.M.S. Houston was listed as a "transport" captured at Yorktown in 1781.