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One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

Johnson Space Center. Texas had won the prize of mission control, but contractors for the Apollo missions were located in virtually all fifty states. The Saturn 5 rocket was built at the Marshall ...

Astronauts get all the glory, but true STEM geeks know the people at mission control are superstars, too. Don’t believe us? Take a tour of the Apollo Mission Control Center. In 1985, the room ...

Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed down ... Kranz’s wife, Marta, created the garment that would establish a Mission Control tradition. In 1962, when the Kranzes moved into ...

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.

During this time, the Moon was between the spacecraft and Earth, effectively cutting-off all radio communication with mission control. As Apollo 8 emerged from the far side on its fourth orbit ...