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[Proud of MCG...built from scratch
                designed by UCSD students (NASA help)
     some NASA $$, but ≥ 900,000 in donated HW, SW, equipment [[?]]
[cool]

Durign [[?]] MCG staffed 24 hrs/day
                      3 shifts/22 per shifts
                     [˜ 66 students participating]

1 function: translate info from NASA, & make it available (over web) to middle school students

At middle schools:
- students set up mission operations centres (maps, TV monitors, computes, shuttle info)
- connected to UCSD by internet
- getting info from UCSD that allowed them to figure out
   - what area shuttle will go over
   - day/night
   - cloudy 
=> all info they need, in order to specify exactly when camera should take picture