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I worked ISS back in the late 1990s and visited this room. It had not changed since the early 1970s. I think someone told me it wouldn't change as a historic place. Still had old dial up phones and I think those tubes to put messages in a cylinder. It was used for early shuttle flights then the blue and white FCRs were activated. I remember using the restroom adjacent to that room and thinking, I'm peeing in the same place Gene Kranz peed.
Cool! Reading this reminded me of the plywood built to scale Apollo command module that a teacher made in about 1970 -had flashing lights and seats that you could get strapped into. It even had some sort of audio recordings from what I remember. It was mounted in such a way that it could easily be rocked by a couple of kids. The class received a photo/info pack from NASA - I never grew up to be an astronaut, but have always been interested in space, largely as a result of that teacher.
I was born in Florida, in 1957. I was a space coast kid. Most of the kids I knew, their dads and in some cases, moms worked at Cape Canaveral in one capacity or another. :-)
How is this different that the restored room at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida?
KSC has the Launch Control Center while Houston is Mission Control.
Once the crafts cleared the tower, all operations were handled by Mission Control. Before that, while Mission Control was monitoring and certainly involved, the main responsibilities lied with Launch Control at KSC.
Both very important, both worthy of being restored and maintained for posterity.
I worked in Building 8 next door to Building 30 Mission Control back in 1980, during the development of the shuttle. It seemed to be functional. All I really remember is that there were great vending machines just opposite the doors to the room. I never got tired of looking in to see the consoles and remembering seeing them during the Apollo missions.
I would love to visit this. I do remember those journeys to the moon. They were thrilling.
I remember going on a field trip to NASA when I was in kindergarten, and we got to sit in the observation room and watch Mission Control. There was activity at the time, but I’m not sure what was going on. It had to be 1975, so I’m sure it looked very much like it did in ‘69.
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