Are food and drinks allowed inside Mission Control?
Yes we do allow food and drinks inside the Mission Control Center. Depending upon what is happening during the mission, most flight controller’s shifts average between 8 and 12 hours with only 5- to 10-minute breaks every 90 minutes. So you can see that without food and drinks, there would be a lot of rumbling stomachs in the Control Center. One of our long-standing traditions in the MCC is the Food List. This is where each Flight Controller takes a day and delights his colleagues with cuisine of his own choosing. This way he only cooks (or buys) once and is covered for the rest of the mission.
