NASA Reopens Apollo Mission Control Room That Once Landed Men on Moon. The restored room is a museum piece, ... Celebrations on July 24, 1969, at the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission.

JoAnn Morgan sits at the center of the in the firing room during the launch of Apollo 11. NASA file photo Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox.

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.

Inside the Mission Operations Control Room — a freezing-cold space in Houston that smelled like coffee and so much tobacco that a cloud of smoke would draft out when the door opened — that ...

NASA's Apollo-era Mission Operations Control Room, a National Historic Landmark since 1985, has been restored to appear as it did for the moon landing 50 years ago.

Those who watched the Apollo 11 mission unfold remember what it was like to be in Mission Control. “We were a bunch of young people that happened to be at the right place, at the right time ...

The Apollo Engineer Who Almost Wasn’t Allowed in the Control Room JoAnn Morgan stood out against the sea of men in skinny ties and glasses. But she was right where she belonged.

Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary celebration includes a recreated original mission control center and my memories of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human on the moon.

NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Operations Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston will undergo a $5 million restoration to return it to how it looked when Apollo 11 landed on the moon in ...

The original sight where the crew had planned to land was covered in huge boulders. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was forced to take manual control of the module just seconds before landing ...

HOUSTON — NASA's historic Mission Control is soon to be made even more historic. The agency's original control room in Houston, which first went active 50 years ago Wednesday (June 3), has been ...

Those who watched the Apollo 11 mission unfold remember what it was like to be in Mission Control. “We were a bunch of young people that happened to be at the right place, at the right time ...