The hour-long panel, hosted by Space Center Houston President and CEO William Harris, touched upon how those four men wound up at Apollo 11, what it was like working in the control room for Apollo ...

Apollo 11 took off for the moon this week in 1969. To prepare the astronauts, Nasa put them through gruelling, relentless simulations – and BBC Tomorrow's World paid a visit.

Fifty years ago this week, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins ... The control room responded with silence. They would continue with the mission.

He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was scrubbed from the Apollo flight after being exposed to German measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.

The control room has been restored as a museum for the day Apollo 11 landed on the ... flight director Rick LaBrode and Apollo flight director Milt Windler from the Apollo mission control room.

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NASA has restored the Johnson Space Control Centre in Houston to how it looked for 1969 Apollo 11 Mission for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, from equipment to décor.

And on July 16, 1969, Morgan was assigned to a console in the launch control facility at the Kennedy Space Center during the launch of Apollo 11. She was the only woman in the firing room.

Christie laser projectors are part of a meticulous restoration of the Apollo Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Almost exactly 50 years after the historic moon landing, the ...

Other items sold at auction for a total of hundreds of thousands more dollars are some signed Apollo 11 memorabilia, some original Apollo control panels from Kennedy’s Firing Room 1 and the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KLTV) - Hundreds of thousands of men and women made contributions to the success of the Apollo moon missions, but Friday night a crowded room listened to every word spoken by someone ...