For half a century, pop culture has immortalized a group of quick-thinking, pocket-protected men as the face of NASA’s mission control room during the Apollo program. But amid this sea of men ...

The control room itself is 588 sq ft., which is approximately the size of a studio apartment. The simulated mission studies last five days, but will be much longer once the mission is flying.

JoAnn Morgan witnessed history -- and made history -- in 1969 as she watched Apollo 11's liftoff from her console at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The control room itself is 588 sq ft., which is approximately the size of a studio apartment. The simulated mission studies last five days, but will be much longer once the mission is flying.

NASA just unveiled a $5 million dollar renovation to the historic Apollo Mission Control room. ... NASA opens $5M Apollo mission control room restoration for public tours. By Lane Luckie. ... The ...

Restoring the people to the room. The idea for the benches came out of the work that was done in 2019 to restore one of the Mission Control Center's flight control rooms to how it looked at the ...

The control room has been restored as a museum for the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Ahead of NASA's Artemis launch on Monday, ...

No one had ever seen a woman in NASA's Mission Control Center before Poppy Northcutt stepped in the room. In 1968, during the Apollo 8 program, Northcutt worked for TRW, a contractor for NASA.

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 ...

An earlier version of this misstated when a photograph of the control room was taken. It was taken about 40 minutes after the Apollo 11 mission launched on July 16, 1969, not during liftoff.

Imagine monitoring a robot working more than 200,000 miles away on the lunar surface — a stressful job, and one that requires operators to be on the ball at all times while in small control room ...