NASA Apollo Mission Control Room

The Apollo Mission Control Room was designated a historical landmark on October 3, 1985.

Statement of Significance: The Apollo Mission Control Center is significant because of its close association with the manned spacecraft program of the United States. This facility was used to monitor nine Gemini and all Apollo flights including the flight of Apollo 11 that first landed men on the moon. After the end of the Apollo Program this facility was used to monitor manned spaceflights for Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and all recent Space Shuttle flights. The support provided by the Apollo Mission Control Center to the first manned landing on the surface of the moon was critical to the success of the mission. It exercised full mission control of the flight of Apollo 11 from the time of liftoff from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center to the time of splashdown in the Pacific. The technical management of all areas of vehicle systems of Apollo 11 including flight dynamics, life systems, flight crew activities, recovery support, and ground operations were handled here. Through the use of television and the print news media the scene of activity at the Apollo Mission Control during the first manned landing on the moon was made familiar to millions of Americans. When Neil Armstrong reported his "giant leap for mankind" to Mission Control his words went immediately around the world and into history. The Apollo Mission Control Center and Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center are the two resources that symbolize for most Americans achievements of the manned space program leading to the successful first moon landing during the flight of Apollo 11 in July 1969.

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[asgerms]

@iXelsior me2 (lumb in throat). I could just stand there with my mouth open, stare at the buttons on the control-desk forever and think : So this is where Gene Krantz was going "not on my watch!" and so forth...what a site!

[asgerms]

For an infidel like myself, this is probably the closest thing to a holy place. Didn't know it still existed, let alone that it's available to the public. Is it in the exact same building too?

[iXelsior]

Just watching this video and knowing what transpired in this room brings tears to my eyes. Think about this, this is the very room where the words like " Apollo 8 you are go for TLI" and "Eagle you are go for landing" were said.....

[mounsteres]

Launch Control (Specifically Launch Control, not Mission Control) was at Kennedy Space Center, and still is, right?

[peanutlikesbeans]

We were their a few months ago. I really enjoyed the tour. What impressed me the most was the complete Saturn rocket they have on display.

[pittpens10562]

thats where they saved apollo 13, broughtt man to the moon and listened to the death of the apollo 1 crew................... thats a nice room :P

[Xdreamer89]

I was in there a few years ago... late 2007 i believe... it's part of the Level 9 Tour... sooooo cool!! xD

[superapple4ever]

It would be so amazing to be their.