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 ...

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.

JoAnn Morgan in the firing room during NASA's launch of the Apollo 11 moon mission. (Image credit: NASA) The panel, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo lunar missions, began ...

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 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 ...

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.

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’s sexism couldn’t keep the first women astronauts from taking off By . ... “As much as they tried, the women could only control their narratives so much,” writes Grush.

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 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.

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 ...