The Mission Control Desk's Event Sequence panel controls sound files from NASA representing the major events throughout the mission. Jeff Highsmith/Make ...

The desk includes dozens of buttons, knobs, switches and more than 500 LED lights, allowing his son to blast off homework […] One dad may have just launched himself light-years ahead of all the ...

Built from scratch and chronicled on MAKE, this mission control desk has everything: buttons, sliders, dials, switches, covered switches. All that’s missing is an actual spaceship ...

This awesome DIY Mission Control Desk created by Jeff High Smith, made using a variety of switches, buttons and dials to create a fully featured command console that both adults and children ...

The dedicated dad who built the NASA Mission Control Desk for his sons hopes to teach them more about space with this impressive simulator. Ground Control to Major Dad, all systems go!

Jeff Highsmith’s Mission Control desk incorporates actual audio clips from the Apollo 11 mission. Today. Jeff Highsmith of Raleigh, N.C., is a self-proclaimed “tinkerer extraordinaire.” ...

Inside Apollo mission control, from the eyes of the first woman on the job. In the 1960s and '70s, Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight trajectories that got astronauts home from their ...

NASA has preserved the 1969 control room, allowing a glimpse into the facility that once defined America’s technical achievements and creativity in the face of challenges like the Apollo 13 mission.