Aviation and spaceflight

• Air traffic control
  Air traffic control
  Air traffic control is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other...
  
  , in charge of the controlled areas on an airport
• A mission control center
  Mission Control Center
  A mission control center is an entity that manages aerospace vehicle flights, usually from the point of lift-off until the landing or the end of the mission. A staff of flight controllers and other support personnel monitor all aspects of the mission using telemetry, and send commands to the...
  
  , such as the one at Johnson Space Center, responsible for spaceflight

Engineering

• The application of rock mechanics
  Rock mechanics
  Rock mechanics is the theoretical and applied science of the mechanical behaviour of rock and rock masses;also compared to the geology, it is that branch of mechanics concerned with the response of rock and rock masses to the force fields of their physical environment.Rock mechanics itself forms...
  
   to tunneling and underground mining operations

Entertainment

• Ground Control (video game), a 2000 computer game by Massive Entertainment
  • Ground Control II: Operation Exodus
    Ground Control II: Operation Exodus
    Ground Control II: Operation Exodus is a 2004 computer game developed by Massive Entertainment and by them classified as a real-time tactics game. It is a sequel to Ground Control, the award winning game of the same genre...
    
    , its sequel
• Ground Control (film)
  Ground Control (film)
  Ground Control is a 1998 disaster thriller film starring Kiefer Sutherland.-Synopsis:Chicago air traffic controller Jack Harris, though cleared of responsibility for a major Transair crash, killing all 174 aboard, gives up the job and designs air control software. Five years later, his...
  
  , a 1998 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland