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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.
Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston housed the engineers and flight directors who worked tirelessly to ensure Apollo 11's mission was a success. A "12-02" alarm meant that ...
to NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas. The raw feed was converted to work with TV broadcasts. This is because the ...
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 ...
Resilience, a spacecraft built by Japan-based company Ispace, is expected to attempt to touch down on the moon at 3:17 p.m. ET. If successful, it will be the first private-sector lunar lander built ...
To address that last point, NASA's flight directors ... As depicted in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13" (with Ed Harris portraying the legendary mission control leader), Kranz' wife hand-sewed a vest ...
But he had already played another significant role in Nasa's exploration of the Moon. After Apollo 11 touched down in 1969, it was Duke - in mission control as the Capsule Communicator ...
Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled ... Smylie was relaxing at home in Houston on the evening of April 13 when Lovell radioed mission control with his famous (and ...