This room is our Mission Control.” Two men landed on the moon for the first time and one man orbited it on July 20,1969, but the full triumph of Apollo 11 also includes the 400,000 people that ...

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“Apollo 11 is the dividing point in my personal life,” says Bostick. Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, Manned Spacecraft ...

For the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 ... “The DNA of the people inside Mission Control was, they liked that challenge,” Griffin said. “They liked being decisive. You couldn’t say ...

The spacecraft had been guiding itself, relaying its position to Mission ... program in the Apollo operating system would be assigned a priority number. Jobs like guidance and control would ...

It was there in the Apollo Mission Control Center that Mr. Kranz had a ... operation that managed the triumph of the Apollo 11 moon landing 50 years ago. He also rallied and refocused NASA mission ...

The surviving members of the Apollo 11 flight control team were also consulted and many provided their original mission documents to be copied for placement at their consoles. "Each console is ...

The Apollo 11 moon mission landed two astronauts ... NASA meticulously rebuilt its iconic Apollo-era mission control facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, creating a glimpse back ...

The team aboard Apollo 11 remained in constant contact with Mission control and the command module. Just minutes before landing, at 9.10pm, a ‘1202 programme alarm’ was triggered four times.

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