History Main / AndMissionControlRejoiced

* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Still", Beckett is trapped on a pressure-plate triggered bomb that's set to go off in thirty minutes or if she steps off the pressure plate, whichever comes first. At the end of the episode when they manage to disarm the bomb and Castle informs Esposito and Ryan that Beckett is safe, everyone in the precinct starts cheering and hugging each other.

*** Both instances are carried over in ''Film/TheMartian''.

* ''Film/IndependenceDay''. After Russell Case flies his jet into the alien ship's primary weapon and destroys it, the mission control personnel in Area 51 start cheering.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The Griffin family accidentally launch themselves in the space shuttle. After they successfully land, mission control erupts in cheers except [[TheRuntAtTheEnd one guy]].

* ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': MI6 breaks out into relieved laughter and cheers as Bond escapes the blast zone of an ill-advised missile strike in a fighter jet packing enough nukes to spread fallout over Eastern Europe.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': After the destruction of the original Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope'' and the new one in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': In "Flight to Oblivion", Wonder Woman breaks into mission control, disarms the [[{{Mook}} mook]] and allows the operators to divert the missile into the sea. And there was much rejoicing in the mission control room!

* In Series/ForAllMankind there are several such moments (not surprising given the subject material) some of them immediately subverted by things going horribly wrong (or people realizing the success was only partial and the ''real'' work is yet to be done) but some of them remain pure joy.

* Happens in ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' after Harry Stamper's team defeats the asteroid -- with one notable exception.
* Happens at the end of ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'', when the crew responds after entering the atmosphere. In the real event, they didn't because they knew they weren't out of the woods yet: The capsule still had to splash down.

* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' when you shoot down your first UFO and complete other significant feats, such as beating the FinalDungeon, the game will cut back to MissionControl for a CutScene where your NumberTwo and fellow green-shirted nameless XCOM operatives are cheering.
* In ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 3'', everyone in the control room cheers after Ryu succeeds in jumping between two planes so that he can get in time to the Black Narwhal (the aircraft carrier used by the villains).

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', the technicians are surprised to hear transmissions coming from the long-defunct spaceship that Squall and Rinoa are sheltering in, and do everything in their power to help the kids get back to earth. Unfortunately, [[BurnTheWitch they are significantly less enthused]] when Squall tells them that Rinoa is a sorceress, and immediately [[ItIsDehumanizing stop referring to her by name]].
* In ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies''[='=] [[TitleDrop eponymous mission]], the ground crew for the satellite launch can be heard cheering in the background when the one on the radio announces the rocket has reached an altitude too high for any enemies to stop it.

** [[https://youtu.be/wSfU2uxoFUw?t=1101 The New Horizons Pluto flyover]] had one of these. (There was no landing, but some dramatic tension for a few hours because the spacecraft couldn't waste time communicating with Earth during its very brief visit to Pluto. It took ''ten years'' to get there, and there was some uncertainty that every part of it would still work properly, but it did.)
** As well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYVoXgNRx4 Rosetta/Philae comet landing.]]
** Everyone in the control room during [[https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=1938 the SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket's first stage landing.]] It's like one of the MLG parody videos, except the hype is real here.

* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': In chapter 17, when Asuka kills Sandalphon and Rei manages to pull her out of the volcano, the whole command centre celebrated the pilots' victory and survival.
-->"Shinji" a voice called out from above, and he turned, glancing at the highest tier in the command centre as the raucous celebrations continued unabated at the certain loss of two Evangelion's and their pilots turned around in less than a minute to the recovery of both alive

* ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil''': in "The Courtship of Cecilia" (from the 1988 reboot), Cecil blasts off into space after drinking a glass of lemonade spiked with hot sauce. A shot of Mission Control celebrating is shown after Cecil successfully separated.

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-->-- What MissionControl said right after "The Eagle has landed."

--> '''Wonder Woman:''' Good work, Captain!
--> '''Captain:''' Look who's talking!

* At some point, probably because LifeImitatesArt, this became standard practice for the landing or otherwise most dramatic moment in real space missions:

But then, the hero(es) arrive(s) to save the day! MissionControl explodes in cheering after sitting in suspense ("He/She/They did it!"). May include [[ManlyTears ecstatic crying]], [[ManHug sudden hugging]] and a resolution to earlier conflicts in MissionControl.

* In ''Film/TheMartian'' there are two such scenes. See the Literature section.

* Happens at the end of ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'', when the crew responds after entering the atmosphere.
** In the real event, they didn't because they knew they weren't out of the woods yet: The capsule still had to splash down.