‘The colour we ended up matching is not necessarily exact to the original, but more that shade after years of use in Mission Control ... viewing room, which were – at the time – considered a real ...

Don’t believe us? Take a tour of the Apollo Mission Control Center. In 1985, the room was designated a National Historic Landmark. Work began in 2017 to restore it to perfect condition.

Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, Northcutt sat in a staff support room that the directors in the general mission control room would call if they needed assistance. She was the only woman in her job at the ...

But while the mission is under way, I'm Flight. And Flight is God." Astronaut Jim Lovell, who experienced nearly catastrophic problems on Apollo 13 ... row of the control room, known as the ...

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 ...

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 ...