As the world reflects on the 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, NASA has worked ... was used for the Apollo 11 Mission Control. In a project that has taken over six years ...

Certified space-nerd and all-around retro-tech guru [Fran Blanche] has just outdone herself with a comprehensive look at how NASA ran the Mission Control “Big Boards” that provided flight data ...

But in that very moment, it suddenly stopped communicating with mission controllers. The control room on ... Machines and NASA declared success, and Crain said all signs pointed to a ...

This forced the space agency to evacuate the iconic laboratory — leaving the Caltech-managed mission control center for the Deep Space Network, aka NASA's communications hub for missions to Mars ...