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1	[[quoteright:350:[[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/and_mission_control_rejoiced_7367.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Touchdown confirmed. We're safe on Mars."]]
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4	->''"Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again."''
5	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} MissionControl''', right after Neil Armstrong's "The Eagle has landed."
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7	MissionControl has a situation. Everyone is looking intently at TheBigBoard, waiting for disaster to strike.
8	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.
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10	Usually used to show that the hero/heroine is able to solve situations that no one thought could be solved any more. A savvy viewer may not get out of his chair so quickly, as this trope is also commonly used just before an OhCrap moment for MoodWhiplash.
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12	Subtrope of MissionControl. Contrast [[MissingMissionControl Missing Mission Control]].
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14	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Unrelated]] to AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
22	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': When battleship Libra is falling to earth, all the characters come to destroy it before the impact. Heero arrives but is without his most powerful weapon because he lost it in a recent battle. All of a sudden Wufei finds it and brings it to him and informs mission control. "I've given Heero his Buster Rifle!" Mission Control erupts in cheers--and he hasn't even used it yet.
23	* Frequently seen in ''Anime/{{GaoGaiGar}}'' to the point where there's a slight bit of stock footage used for it.
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26	[[folder:FanWorks]]
27	* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': In chapter 7 [[spoiler:Zeruel has ignored or blasted into oblivion all defenses surrounding Tokyo-3, has easily maimed Unit 00 and 02, has smashed Unit 01, has invaded the Geofront and nothing Nerv throws at it works.]] Right when it is about to blast everybody [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka come along riding Unit 03.]] Everyone in TheBridge cheered.
28	-->''"YES! WAY TO GO, KIDS!" Misato shouted in joy.''\
29	''The mood on Central Dogma's command deck had suddenly swung from mounting despair to shouts of relief and cheer. Shinji and Asuka, the Pilots who'd won victory after victory had appeared once again to save the day.''
30	* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': Misato starts cheering alongside the bridge crew after Superman [[spoiler:a.k.a., Shinji]] manages to quickly resolve the Jet Alone incident.
31	* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': In chapter 17, when Asuka kills Sandalphon and Rei manages to pull her out of the volcano, the whole command center celebrated the pilots' victory and survival.
32	-->"Shinji" a voice called out from above, and he turned, glancing at the highest tier in the command center 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
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35	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
36	* The Situation Room at the end of ''Film/AirForceOne'', sparked by a C-130's announcement of the successful rescue of the president from the stricken Air Force One.
37	--> '''Pilot:''' Liberty 2-4 is changing callsigns. Liberty 2-4 is now Air Force One!
38	* Happens in ''{{Film/Argo}}'' when Tony Mendez and the six American hostages successfully clear Iranian airspace.
39	* Happens in ''Film/Armageddon1998'' after Harry Stamper's team defeats the asteroid -- with one notable exception.
40	* Happens at the end of ''Film/Apollo13'', 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.
41	* In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', the control room staff celebrate and break out the champagne when the ritual finally seems to have succeeded in pleasing the Elder Gods for another year.
42	* ''Film/{{Everest\|2015}}'': In the trailer there's a scene where they announce they've made it to the summit to cheering back at base camp. Proves to be premature as the blizzard moves in not long after.
43	* ''Film/IndependenceDay''. After Russell Casse flies his jet into the alien ship's primary weapon and destroys it, the mission control personnel in Area 51 start cheering.
44	%% * In ''Film/TheMartian'' there are two such scenes.
45	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
46	** ''Film/IronMan1'', after Tony saves the fighter pilot by punching his parachute.
47	** In ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'', the controllers on the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier cheer when Tony Stark captures the nuke bound for New York and instead sends it through the portal.
48	* In ''Film/PacificRim'', the Shatterdome staff celebrate mankind's victory by stopping the war clock that counted down the time until the next Kaiju attack.
49	* Just as it appear the time portal has closed at the end of ''Film/Rewind2013'', mission control is shocked to see it sputter back online for just long enough that Lyndsay, Danny, and Shaun can return from 1929. The historians, technicians, and even the military personnel rush down to the portal room to welcome the trio back from their time traveling adventures, with much congratulatory back-slapping and relieved hugging to go around. There's even a party to celebrate the mission's success!
50	* ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'': After the whale probe stops destroying Earth and returns to where it came from.
51	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
52	** After the destruction of the original Death Star in ''Film/ANewHope'' and the new one in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
53	** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', the bridge of the ''Raddus'' does this after the Dreadnought is taken down.
54	* ''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.
55	* In ''Film/WarGames'', when David Lightman manages to convince the JOSHUA AI inhabiting the W.O.P.R. computer to not launch all of the U.S.'s missiles at the Soviet Union and start WorldWarIII, the NORAD command staff begins to cheer.
56	* In ''Film/{{Without Warning\|1994}}'' (1994), Mission Control celebrates as meteors headed for Washington, Moscow, and Beijing are destroyed. [[spoiler:Cue a rather silent MassOhCrap moments later, when hundreds of new meteors are detected hurtling down, dooming all life on Earth.]]
57	* In ''Film/HiddenFigures'', when John Glenn successfully splashes down.
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61	[[folder:Literature]]
62	* ''Literature/TheMartian'':
63	** Everyone cheers as Pathfinder's signal arrives, letting them know Mark successfully revived it. In this case, "Mission Control" is a conference room crowded with people and computers, because the old Pathfinder mission center has long since been repurposed.
64	** [[spoiler:Again at the end, when Lewis reports, "Houston, this is ''Hermes'' Actual. Six crew safely aboard."]]
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67	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
68	* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
69	** Stargate Command has erupted in cheers on quite a few occasions. But then, on quite a few occasions, the Earth has come ''this'' close to ending.
70	** In the episode "Tangent" Teal'c and Jack are trapped in a modified death glider on a ballistic course out of the solar system. After Sam, Daniel, and Jacob Carter get there and beam them off, the SGC control room erupts in cheers upon receiving their radio message.
71	* In ''Series/TwentyFour'', CTU headquarters usually doesn't cheer, but there is a notable sense of relief when the day's threat has been neutralized.
72	* In the ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'' 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.
73	* ''Series/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'' has numerous examples of this. Since almost every mission is the first time they've done something with a human being sitting at the top of the rocket, there's a lot of pressure and immense relief when it goes right. Notable examples include Alan Shepard's flight in Mercury 7 and the landing of Apollo 11... and then there's Apollo 15, where the lunar geologists rejoice over the astronauts finding the anorthite that would be dubbed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Rock Genesis Rock]].
74	* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': In "Flight to Oblivion", Wonder Woman breaks into mission control, disarms the {{mook\|s}} and allows the operators to divert the missile into the sea. And there was much rejoicing in the mission control room!
75	-->'''Wonder Woman:''' Good work, Captain!\
76	'''Captain:''' Look who's talking!
77	* 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.
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80	[[folder:Video Games]]
81	* 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.
82	* 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]].
83	* At the climax of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Admiral Hackett]] indulges in the most [[DangerDeadpan deadpan version imaginable]] when Shepard reaches their objective [[spoiler: despite the Reapers [[CurbStompBattle incinerating the rest of the convoy in mid-charge]]]].
84	-->'''Hackett''': ''Holy shit''. S/he did it.
85	* 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).
86	* 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 technicians are cheering.
87	** The game also subverts this after you raid the aliens' hidden Earth staging post, take out its commander, and bring back an odd communications device. Everyone in Mission Control is celebrating except for your chief scientists, who asks the obvious question: "If the Sectoid Commander ''was'' the alien leader, then who, or what, was it communicating with?" Sure enough, TheWarHasJustBegun, and the aliens' ''actual'' leader caste begins appearing during subsequent missions, along with their elite forces. [[spoiler:And with the ''Enemy Within'' expansion, less than a month after you attack their base, the aliens retaliate by [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs attacking XCOM HQ.]]]]
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90	[[folder:Western Animation]]
91	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The Griffin family accidentally launch themselves in the space shuttle. After they successfully land, mission control erupts in cheers except one guy, saying he doesn't even know them.
92	* In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Fly," NASA's mission control cheers for their successful launch (with confetti), but it's cut short when one of the crankier members tells them all to "can it" and they immediately do.
93	* ''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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96	[[folder:Real Life]]
97	* Very definitely TruthInTelevision. Even if there are no astronauts' lives on the line, many space missions have that moment where billions of dollars and years of work could go up in smoke in an instant. It's quite a relief when it doesn't.
98	** Mars rover Curiosity's successful landing and the subsequent celebration at UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} (pictured above) is the iconic real life example from TheNewTens.
99	*** 9 years later, the one for the Perseverance rover's touchdown was tempered by social-distancing measures in place to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic, but the jubilation was still plain to see.
100	** [[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.
101	** As well as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYVoXgNRx4 Rosetta/Philae comet landing.]]
102	** Everyone in the control room during [[https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4?t=1938 the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's first-stage landing.]] It's like one of the MLG parody videos, except the hype is real here.
103	** The DART mission had another example, though it was an unusual one, because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aYCFlK__7U the rejoicing came when the spacecraft successfully slammed into the tiny asteroid it was sent to]] at 14,000 mph, utterly obliterating it. The mission's purpose was to see if it was feasible to target an asteroid with a kinetic impactor to alter its trajectory, just in case one ever posed a danger to Earth.
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