1.   Even so, the system on board the spacecraft retained some independence should contact with ground control be lost.

2.   The ground control asked the crew to describe the creatures -- bat-like, horrible -- and then the sound went dead.

3.   And the evening news showed footage of guys at ground control actually hugging when the Pathfinder touched down.

4.   Alberi and his colleagues feverishly worked out the structural problems for ground control in Houston.

5.   But with the current clamor for new stocks, more of them are sending companies into orbit with relatively little in the way of ground control.

6.   But with the loss of a fourth gyroscope, ground control teams would be forced to begin to curtail observations.

7.   By some accounts, they also monitored conversations between pilots and air force ground controls.

8.   Communications components in the bus-sized laboratory will allow the United States to take over day-to-day ground control operations from Russia early next year.

9.   Data transmissions to ground control were cut off.

10.   During those sessions, astronauts in the simulator communicate with the same ground control that will work with them during the flight.