JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . Space Shuttle . ... To assist in honing the interaction between crews and the shuttle systems, the shuttle mission simulators provided integrated training for crews, the MCC and mission operators, payload support groups, and tracking and telemetry systems. ... Still vital in training today, its three basic stations, a fixed-based crew station, a network simulation system and a motion-base crew station, became operational in 1978. ...