page_title: Payload Operations and Integration Center
hierarchical_section_title: Payload Operations and Integration Center
caption_attribution_description: English: The Payload Control Room at Huntsville Operations Support Center, Marshall Space Flight Center
context_page_description: Also known as Huntsville Operations Support Center, radio callsign Huntsville, or Payload Operations Center, it is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility that works in conjunction with the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Control Centers in Houston, Texas. The Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the headquarters for International Space Station science operations. This Control Center links Earth-bound researchers and developers from around the world with their experiments and astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
  Here is a list of everyday tasks for this center during the life of the International Space Station:
  Integrates research requirements
  Plans science missions
  Ensures the safe execution of science
  Integrates the crew and ground team training and research mission timelines
  Manages use of space station payload resources
  Handles science communications with the crew
  Manages commanding and data transmissions to and from the orbiting research center.
  The Operations Center is staffed around the clock by three shifts of flight controllers.
context_section_description: Also known as Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC), radio callsign  Huntsville, or Payload Operations Center,  it is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility that works in conjunction with the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Control Centers in Houston, Texas.  The Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the headquarters for International Space Station science operations. This Control Center links Earth-bound researchers and developers from around the world with their experiments and astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
  Here is a list of everyday tasks for this center during the life of the International Space Station:
  Integrates research requirements
  Plans science missions
  Ensures the safe execution of science
  Integrates the crew and ground team training and research mission timelines
  Manages use of space station payload resources
  Handles science communications with the crew
  Manages commanding and data transmissions to and from the orbiting research center.
  The Operations Center is staffed around the clock by three shifts of flight controllers.
caption: The Payload Operations Control Room in the Huntsville Operations Support Center, Marshall Space Flight Center
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