The first manned mission to the moon ... Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs ...

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One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

Astronauts get all the glory, but true STEM geeks know the people at mission control are superstars, too. Don’t believe us? Take a tour of the Apollo Mission Control Center. In 1985, the room ...

Flight controllers in Mission Control monitored all the Apollo moon missions, including the first moonwalk. After the last space shuttle launch in 1992, NASA moved to a different control room and ...

Artemis 2 aims to send four astronauts around the moon, while Artemis 3 will be the first crewed lunar-landing mission since Apollo 17 in ... Artemis 2's launch vehicle stage adapter rolled ...

extended his thanks on an autographed photo for McClelland's "help on the Apollo XI mission & emblem." Both Armstrong's and Collins' signed photos, together with a third inscribed "with many ...