complex standalone sim was controlled by the instructors in the simulator instructor station, who also portrayed the flight controllers. A dedicated console area in the Mission Control Center, called the Simulation Control Area (SCA), controlled simulation conduct during integrated activities while the instructors operated the simulator itself. Disposition to museums As the Space Shuttle Program ended in July 2011, all the simulators in JSC's SMS complex were mothballed and prepared for removal and transport as excess NASA inventory throughout 2012. None of the three bases remain on display at the location originally assigned. The FBS was shipped to Chicago where it was originally planned to be an attraction at the Adler Planetarium, but in 2016 it was transferred to the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The MBS was planned to be used in the Aerospace Engineering department at Texas A&M University starting in 2013, but due to funding issues, the simulator remained in storage until mid-2021. At that time its cockpit was returned to the Johnson Space Center and a team of volunteers started restoring it for display. On April 12, 2022, the Motion Base cockpit was transferred to the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston for permanent public display. The GNS was delivered to the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum at the Keystone Heights Airport in Starke, Florida in 2012, but in 2018 the owner was forced to liquidate the museum's collection. In 2021 the GNS was shipped to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona for display after being used as a movie prop for Moonfall (film). References See also Shuttle Training Aircraft Space Shuttle program