On a Mission: Restoration to Return NASA Mission Control Room to Apollo Glory

Robert Z. Pearlman <a href="http://www.collectspace.com">collectSPACE.com Editor</a>
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Over the past 50 years, NASA's Mission Control in Houston has undergone a number of upgrades, improving the technologies that support humans in space. The Mission Operations Control Room, located on the third floor of the Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, is about to get a $5 million restoration to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and serve as an inspiration for the generations of visitors who come to see it on public tours. "I believe this is going to be the tribute that the men, and a few women, are provided for the years of dedication," said Eugene Kranz, the famed flight director who led the room when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969 and when the Apollo 13 astronauts radioed, "Houston, we've had a problem," a year later.