HOUSTON—Following the completion of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration, NASA's historic Apollo Mission Operations Control Room 2 ("MOCR 2") is set to reopen to the public next week.

HOUSTON — After Gene Kranz retired in the 1990s, he started to give occasional tours to V.I.P.s at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It was there in the Apollo Mission Control Center that Mr. Kranz ...

[Gallery: Historic Apollo Mission Control Consoles Removed for Restoration ... the visitor center for Johnson Space Center, together with NASA, Texas Historical Commission and the National ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA's Mission Control from the Apollo days has been meticulously restored to the way it looked 50 years ago. The control room at Johnson Space Center in Houston was last used ...

Last week, NASA unveiled a restored Apollo Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center. Former Flight Director Gene Kranz, who led the Apollo 11 Moon landing and then gained fame after his role ...

NASA has opened the doors to the restored Mission Control Center (MCC) from which Apollo-era flight controllers guided astronauts on the first bold voyages to the Moon, and safely home.

That high drama was featured in the movie "Apollo 13." NASA used the mission control room with its monochrome computer monitors and rotary dial telephones starting in 1965. It went dark in 1992 ...

NASA's mission control center was, and still is, located in the nondescript Building 30 on the campus of Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The main Apollo control room, which is currently ...

Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, is about to get a $5 million restoration to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and serve as an ...

"My first reaction was, ‘That's the craziest idea I've ever heard,'" said Jerry Bostick, then chief of flight dynamics and retrofire officer at NASA's Apollo Mission Control Center in Houston.

and initiative at Mission Control and turned an almost certain catastrophe for NASA into a successful recovery.” Despite their safe return home after a near-brush with death, none of the Apollo ...