The magic moment came when Tim Russert, who, along with Brian Williams, was manning ground control for MSNBC, asked one of the contenders what he termed "a serious question".
Aerial photography missions were flown mainly by air survey companies of the United Kingdom, and surveyors were sent overseas to establish horizontal and vertical ground control for the photography.
At the Pride group's welcome party, we met Jim Pollin and John Scagliotti, the co-presidents of the organization, and their aide-de-camp Geisha Cumberbatch, who served as ground control for the week's events.
Although the mission was only 7 days, careful and concerted planning at all stages made it possible to obtain crystals of improved quality compared to their ground controls for some of the proteins.
The detailed field studies already undertaken can be used to provide ground control for the more general area studies employing aerial photographs, topographic & soil maps.
As W/OP/AG I used morse to obtain coded fixes, triangulated from ground control, for the pilot to set our course.
Ground control for this area is provided by the reconnaissance survey of van Loon (1967) and by more detailed studies by Wilkinson at Dibsi Faraj (1976 and unpublished manuscript) and Tell Sweyhat (1976 , 1982and continuing).
Although the employment of MOLA data in HRSC DTM processing has been successful, Kim et al. (2007) observed that the MOLA data was not able to provide sufficient ground control for verifying HiRISE and CTX DTMs geodetically due to the significant variation of spatial resolution of MOLA DTM, HiRISE and CTX images.
Luckily, it seems you can call ground control for rocket-powered interstellar room service.
A small room in the Silver Lake home he shares with his wife and restaurant manager, Sarah St. Lifer, serves as ground control for the business side of the restaurants, plus the writing of his first cookbook, on Northern Thai street food, coming out in fall 2017 from Clarkson Potter.
