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Title Overall view of Mission Control Center, Houston, Tx during Gemini 5
Description Overall view of the Mission Control Center (MCC), Houston, Texas, during the Gemini 5 flight. Note the screen at the front of the MCC which is used to track the progress of the Gemini spacecraft.
Date Taken 1965-08-27
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during Apollo 9 earth orbital mission
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Bldg 30, during the Apollo 9 earth orbital mission. When this photograph was taken a live television transmission was being received from Apollo 9 as it orbited the earth. The screen on the upper right hand side of the photo shows that transmission as it was received.
Date Taken 1969-03-03
Overall view of Mission Oper …
Title Overall view of Mission Operations Control in Mission Control Center
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, on the first day of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission. A color television transmission was being received from Apollo 10. This picture was made following separation of the Lunar Module (LM) and Saturn third stage (S-IVB) from the Command/Service Modules (CSM) and prior to LM extraction from the S-IVB.
Date Taken 1969-05-18
Partial view of activity in …
Title Partial view of activity in Mission Control Center during Apollo 10 mission
Description Partial view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, on the first day of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission. The television monitor shows a picture of the earth made during the second telecast from the Apollo 10's color TV camera.
Date Taken 1969-05-18
Astronaut David Scott in Mis …
Title Astronaut David Scott in Mission Control Room during Apollo 11
Description Astronaut David R. Scott is seated at a console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. He is watching a television monitor during the lunar surface extravehicular activity in which Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. participated. Scott is the backup crew commander for the scheduled Apollo 12 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during lunar surface Apollo 11 EVA
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center during launch of Apollo 11
Description Overall view of activity at the Flight Director's console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, Manned Spacecraft Center, during the launch of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Shift 1 Flight Director Clifford E. Charlesworth is seated in the center of the picture. Eugene F. Kranz, Shift 2 Flight Director, is seated on the left of Charlesworth.
Date Taken 1969-07-16
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during lunar surface Apollo 11 EVA
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. The television monitor shows Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during lunar surface Apollo 11 EVA
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. The television monitor shows Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon.
Date Taken 1969-07-20
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center celebrating conclusion of Apollo 11 mission
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), showing the flight controllers celebrating the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission (40022,40023), NASA and MSC Officials join the flight controllers in celebrating the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. Identifiable in picture, starting in foreground, are Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, MSC Director, George M. Low, Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, MSC: Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director of Flight Operations, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips (with glasses, looking downward), Apollo Program Director, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA Headquarters, and Dr. George E. Mueller (with glasses, looking toward left), Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA HQ. Former Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. is standing behind Mr. Low (40024).
Date Taken 1969-07-24
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center celebrating conclusion of Apollo 11 mission
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), at the conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The television monitor shows President Richard M. Nixon greeting the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the U.S.S. Hornet in the Pacific recovery area (40301), NASA and MSC Officials join the flight controllers in celebrating the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. From left foreground Dr. Maxime A. Faget, MSC Director of Engineering and Development, George S. Trimble, MSC Deputy Director, Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Director fo Flight Operations, Julian Scheer (in back), Assistant Adminstrator, Offic of Public Affairs, NASA HQ., George M. Low, Manager, Apollo Spacecraft Program, MSC, Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, MSC Director, and Charles W. Mathews, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA HQ (40302).
Date Taken 1969-07-24
Activity in Mission Control …
Title Activity in Mission Control Center during Apollo 12 lunar landing mission
Description Overal view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. When this picture was made the first Apollo 12 extravehicular activity was being televised from the surface of the Moon.
Date Taken 1969-11-19
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 emergency return
Description As the Apollo 13 crewmen entered their final 24 hours in space, several persons important to the mission remained attentive at consoles in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) at Manned Spacecraft Center. Among those monitoring communications and serving in supervisory capacities were (from left)Thomas H. McMullen, Office of Manned Space Flight, Shift 1 Mission Director, Dale Myers, Associate Administrator, Manned Space Flight, Chester M. Lee of the Apollo Program Directorate, OMSF, Apollo 13 Mission Director, and Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, Apollo Program Dirctor, OMSF. All four were from NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Date Taken 1970-04-16
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description A group of eight astronauts and flight controllers monitor the console activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) during the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission. Seated, left to right, are MOCR Guidance Officer Raymond F. Teague, Astronaut Edgar D. Michell, and Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., Standing, left to right, are Scientist-Astronaut Anthony W. England, Astronaut Joe H. Engle, Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, and M.P. Frank, a flight controller. When this picture was made, the Apollo 13 moon landing had already been cancelled, and the Apollo 13 crewmen were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home.
Date Taken 1970-04-14
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 emergency return
Description Overall view showing some of the activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) during the final 24 hours of the Apollo 13 mission. Here, flight controllers and several NASA/MSC Officials confer at the flight director's console. When this picture was made, the Apollo 13 moon landing had been cancelled and the Apollo 13 crewmen were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home (35368), Discussion in the MOCR dealing with the Apollo 13 crewmen during their final day in space. From left to right are Glynn S. Lunney, Shift 4 Flight Director, Gerald D. Griffin, SHift 2 Flight Director, Astronaut James A. McDivitt, Manager, APollo Spacecraft Program, MSC, Dr. Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations, MSC, and Dr. Willard R. Hawkins, M.D., Shift 1 Flight Surgeon (35369).
Date Taken 1970-04-16
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., prime crew commander of the Apollo 14 mission, monitors communications between the Apollo 13 spacecraft and Mission Control Center (MCC). He is seated at a console in the Mission Operations Control Room of the MCC. The main concern of the moment was action taken by the Apollo 13 crewment to make corrections inside the spacecraft following discovery of an oxygen cell failure several hours earlier.
Date Taken 1970-04-14
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description A group of flight controllers gather around the console of Glynn S. Lunney (seated, nearest camera), Shift 4 Flight Director, in the Mission Operations Control Room of Mission Control Center (MCC). Their attention is drawn to a weather map of the proposed landing site in the South Pacific. Among those looking on is Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Deputy Director, Manned Spacecraft Center (standing, in black suit, right). When this photograph was taken, the Apollo 13 lunar landing had been cancelled, and the problem-plagued Apollo 13 crewmen were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home.
Date Taken 1970-04-15
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Title View of Mission Control Center during Apollo 13 splashdown
Description Dr. Thomas O. Paine (center), NASA Administrator, and other NASA Officials joined others in applauding the successful splashdown of the Apollo 13 crewmen. Others among the large crowd in the Mission Operations Control Room of the Mission Control Center, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) at the time of recovery were U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips (extreme left), who formerly served as Apollo program Director, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA Headquarters, Dr. Charles A. Berry (third from left), Director, Medical Research and Operations Directorate, MSC, and Dr. George M. Low, Associate NASA Administrator.
Date Taken 1970-04-17
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 liftoff
Description Sigurd A. Sjoberg, Director of Flight Operations at Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), views the Apollo 13 liftoff from a console in the MSC Mission Control Center, bldg 30. Apollo 13 lifted off at 1:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34627), Astronaut Thomas F. Mattingly II, who was scheduled as a prime crewman for the Apollo 13 mission but was replaced in the final hours when it was discovered he had been exposed to measles, watches the liftoff phase of the mission. He is seated at a console in the Mission Control Center's Mission Operations Control Room. Scientist-Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, a spacecraft communicator for the mission, looks on at right (34628).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description Two phases of busy activity during critical moments of the Apollo 13 mission are reflected in this view in the Mission Control Center (MCC), bldg 30, Manned Spacecraft Center (MCC). In the foreground, Henry Simmons (left) of Newsweek magazine and John E. Riley, Public Information Specialist, Public Affairs Office, MCC, man their positions in the Press Room. At extreme left of photo, Gerald D. Griffin, Shift 2 Flight Director, talks on telephone in Mission Operations Control Room. When this photograph was taken, the Apollo 13 lunar landing had been cancelled, and the problem-plagued Apollo 13 crewmen were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home.
Date Taken 1970-04-15
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Title View of Mission Control Center during Apollo 13 splashdown
Description Overall view of Mission Operations Control Room in Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) during the ceremonies aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 13 mission. Dr. Donald K. Slayton (in black shirt, left of center), Director of Flight Crew Operations at MSC, and Chester M. Lee of the Apollo Program Directorate, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA Headquarters, shake hands, while Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, Apollo Program Director, Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA Headquarters (standing, near Lee), watches the large screen showing Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Apollo 13 commander, during the on-board ceremonies. In the foreground, Glynn S. Lunney (extreme left) and Eugene F. Kranz (smoking a cigar), two Apollo 13 Flight Directors, view the activity from their consoles.
Date Taken 1970-04-17
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description Mrs. Mary Haise receives an explanation of the revised flight plan of the Apollo 13 mission from Astronaut Gerald P. Carr in the Viewing Room of Mission Control Center, bldg 30, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). Her husband, Astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., was joining the fellow crew members in making corrections in their spacecraft following discovery of an oxygen cell failure several hours earlier (34900), Dr. Charles A. Berry, Director of Medical Research and Operations Directorate at MSC, converses with Mrs. Marilyn Lovell in the Viewing Room of Mission Control Center. Mrs. Lovell's husband, Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., was busily making corrections inside the spacecraft following discovery of an oxygen cell failure several hours earlier (34901).
Date Taken 1970-04-14
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 fourth television signal
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) during the fourth television transmission from the Apollo 13 mission in space. Eugene F. Kranz (foreground, back to camera), one of four Apollo 13 Flight Directors, views the large screen at front of MOCR. Astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, is seen on the screen.
Date Taken 1970-04-13
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Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description Several persons important to the Apollo 13 mission, at consoles in the Mission Operations Control Room of the Mission Control Center (MCC). Seated at consoles, from left to right, are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations, Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Shift 3 spacecraft communicator, and Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 13 back-up crew. Standing, left to right, are Astronaut Tom K. Mattingly, who was replaced as Apollo 13 command module pilot after it was learned he may come down with measles, and Astronaut Vance D. Brand, Shift 2 spacecraft communicator. Several hours earlier crew members of the Apollo 13 mission reported to MCC that trouble had developed with an oxygen cell in their spacecraft.
Date Taken 1970-04-14
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Title View of Mission Control Center during Apollo 13 splashdown
Description Overall view of Mission Operations Control Room in Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) during the ceremonies aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 13 mission. The Apollo 13 spacecraft, with Astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard splashed down in the South Pacific at 12:07:44 p.m., April 17, 1970.
Date Taken 1970-04-17
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during Apollo 13 splashdown
Description Overall view of Mission Operations Control Room in Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) during the ceremonies aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 13 mission. The Apollo 13 spacecraft, with Astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard splashed down in the South Pacific at 12:07:44 p.m., April 17, 1970.
Date Taken 1970-04-17
Overall view of Mission Cont …
Title Overall view of Mission Control Center during Apollo 14
Description Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center during the Apollo 14 transposition and docking maneuvers. The Apollo 14 Lunar Module, still attached to the Saturn IVB stage, can be seen on the large television monitor.
Date Taken 1971-01-31
Activity in the Mission Cont …
Title Activity in the Mission Control Center during Apollo 14
Description Two individuals are examining a seismic reading in the Mission Control Center's Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP) Room during the Apollo 14 S-IVB impact on the moon. Dr. Maurice Ewing (left) is the Director of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory at Columbia University. David Lammlein, a Columbia graduate student, is on the right (17609), Partial view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at the time the Apollo 14 S-IVB stage impacted on the lunar surface. The flight director's console in in the foregroune. Eugene F. Kranz, Chief of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Flight Control Division, is in the right foreground. Seated at the console is Glynn S. Lunney, Head of the Flight Directors Office, Flight Control Division. Facing the camera is Gerald D. Griffin, Flight Director of the Third (Gold) team (17610).
Date Taken 1971-02-04
Wide angle view of Mission C …
Title Wide angle view of Mission Control Center during Apollo 14 transmission
Description A wide angle overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center at the Manned Spacecraft Center. This view was photographed during the first color television transmission from the Apollo 14 Command Module. Projected on the large screen at the right front of the MOCR is a view of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module, still attached to the Saturn IVB stage. The Command and Service Modules were approaching the LM/S-IVB during transposition and docking maneuvers.
Date Taken 1971-01-31
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center after launch of Apollo 15
Description An overall, wide-angle lens view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center minutes after the launch of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Ground elapsed time was 45 minutes and 42 seconds when this photograph was taken.
Date Taken 1971-07-26
Seismometer readings studied …
Title Seismometer readings studied in Mission Control Center
Description The seismometer reading from the impact made by the Apollo 15 Saturn S-IVB stage when it struck the lunar surface is studied by scientists in the Mission Control Center. Dr. Gary Latham (dark suit, wearing lapel button) of Columbia University is responsible for the design and experiment data analysis of the Passive Seismic Experiment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP). The man on the left, writing, is Nafi Toksos of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Looking on at upper left is Dave Lammlein, also with Columbia.
Date Taken 1971-07-29
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center during Apollo 15 EVA
Description Gerald D. Griffin, foreground, stands near his console in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) during Apollo 15's third extravehicular activity (EVA-3) on the lunar surface. Griffin is Gold Team (Shift 1) flight director for the Apollo 15 mission. Astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin can be seen on the large screen at the front of the MOCR as they participate in sample-gathering on the lunar surface.
Date Taken 1971-08-02
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center during Lunar Module liftoff
Description The liftoff from the Moon of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module "Falcon" ascent stage is viewed on the television monitor in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center by Granvil A. Pennington, an Instruments and Communications Systems Officer.
Date Taken 1971-08-02
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center during Lunar Module liftoff
Description A partial view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the liftoff of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module "Falcon" ascent stage from the lunar surface. An RCA color television camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle made it possible for people on Earth to watch the Lunar Module (LM) launch from the Moon. Seated in the right foreground is Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, a spacecraft communicator. Note liftoff on the television monitor in the center background.
Date Taken 1971-08-02
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center during Apollo 15 lunar landing
Description An overall, wide-angle lens view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the landing of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) on the Moon. The LM "Falcon" touched down on the lunar surface at ground elapsed time of 104 hours 42 minutes 29 seconds.
Date Taken 1971-07-30
View of activity in Mission …
Title View of activity in Mission Control Center during Apollo 15 EVA
Description A view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center during the Apollo 15 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin can be seen on the large screen at the front of the MOCR as they participate in sample-gathering on the lunar surface.
Date Taken 1971-07-30
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during Apollo 16 flight
Description An overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center on the first day of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission. This picture was taken during television coverage transmitted from the Apollo 16 spacecraft on its way to the Moon. The TV monitor in the background shows how the Apollo 16 astronauts viewed the Earth from 7,500 nautical miles away.
Date Taken 1972-04-16
View of Medical Support Room …
Title View of Medical Support Room in Mission Control Center during Apollo 16
Description Dr. J.F. Zieglschmid, M.D., Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) White Team Surgeon, is seated in the Medical Support Room in the Mission Control Center as he monitors crew biomedical data being received from the Apollo 16 spacecraft on the third day of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission.
Date Taken 1972-04-18
Flight Director Eugene Kranz …
Title Flight Director Eugene Kranz in Mission Control during Apollo 16 launch
Description Flight Director Eugene F. Kranz is seated at his console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center on the morning of the launch of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission. Partially visible in the background is Flight Director Gerald D. Griffin.
Date Taken 1972-04-16
Mission Operations Control C …
Title Mission Operations Control Center during Apollo 17 launch
Description Flight director's console during the Apollo 17 liftoff. View shows Neil Hutchingson, Eugene Kranz and Gerald Griffin in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR), bldg 30, Mission Control Center.
Date Taken 1972-12-06
Skylab flight controllers an …
Title Skylab flight controllers and JSC Officials in Mission Control Center
Description A group of key Skylab flight controllers and JSC Officials cluster around Flight Director Donald R. Puddy's console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at JSC during consideration of the problem of the undeployed solar panels on the Skylab 1 Orbital Workshop. Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (wearing coat), JSC Director, is standing behind Puddy.
Date Taken 1973-05-14
Flight Directors Puddy and S …
Title Flight Directors Puddy and Shaffer in Mission Control during Skylab 2 launch
Description Flight Directors Donald R. Puddy (left background) and Philip C. Shaffer are seated at the flight director's console in the Mission Opeations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at JSC during Skylab 2 launch activity.
Date Taken 1973-05-25
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during Skylab 3 recovery
Description Overal view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Mission Control Center (MCC), bldg 30, during the Skylab 3 recovery.
Date Taken 1973-09-27
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control examine replica of spider habitat from Skylab 3
Description Flight Director Neil B. Hutchinson, left, and Astronaut Bruce McCandless II hold up a glass enclosure - home for the spider Arachne, which is the same species as the two spiders carried on the Skylab 3 mission. The real spider is the one barely visible at the upper right corner of the square, the larger one is a projected image on the rear-screen-projected map in the front of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC). McCandless served as backup pilot for the first manned Skylab mission and was a spacecraft-communicater (CAPCOM) for the second crew.
Date Taken 1973-09-25
Flight Operations Director's …
Title Flight Operations Director's console in Mission Control during Skylab 4
Description An overall view of the Flight Operations Director's console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at JSC during the launch of the Skylab 4 mission. The television monitor records the progress of the flight seconds after liftoff. Left to right, are Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr., JSC Director, Howard W. Tindall Jr., JSC Director of Flight Operations, and Flight Director M.P. Frank. Public Affairs commentator John E. McLeish can be seen at the PAO console in the background.
Date Taken 1973-11-16
Dr. Lubos Kohoutek in Missio …
Title Dr. Lubos Kohoutek in Mission Control during Skylab 4
Description Dr. Lubos Kohoutek, discoverer of the Comet Kohoutek, is seen in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during a visit to JSC. He is talking over a radio-telephone with the Skylab 4 crewmen in the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. Professor Kohoutek, a well-known Czechoslovakian astronomer who works at the Hamburg Observatory in West Germany, discussed the comet with Astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue. Dr. Zdenek Sekania, who accompanied Dr. Kohoutek on the visit to JSC, is on the telephone in the left background. Dr. Sekania is with the Smithsonian Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Date Taken 1974-01-03
Overall view of Mission Oper …
Title Overall view of Mission Operations Control Room during ASTP simulation
Description An overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during joint ASTP simulation activity at JSC. The simulations are part of the preparations for the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission scheduled for July 1975. M. P. Frank (seated, right) is the senior American flight director for the mission. Sigurd A. Sjoberg (in center, checked jacket), JSC Deputy Director, watches some of the console activity. George W. S. Abbey, Technical Assistant to the JSC Director, is standing next to Sjoberg. The television monitor in the background shows Soviet Soyuz crew activity from the Soviet Union.
Date Taken 1975-03-20
VIew of Mission Control on f …
Title VIew of Mission Control on first day of ASTP docking in Earth orbit
Description An overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center on the first day of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission. The American ASTP flight controllers at JSC were monitoring the progress of the Soviet ASTP launch when this photograph was taken. The television monitor shows Cosmonaut Yuri V. Romanenko at his spacecraft communicator's console in the ASTP mission control center in the Soviet Union.
Date Taken 1975-07-15
View of USSR flight controll …
Title View of USSR flight controllers in Mission Control during touchdown
Description An overall view of the group of Soviet Union flight controllers who served at the Mission Control Center during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission. They are applauding the successful touchdown of the Soyuz spacecraft in Central Asia. The television monitor had just shown the land landing of the Soyuz descent vehicle.
Date Taken 1975-07-21
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during joint U.S.-USSR ASTP mission
Description An overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during joint U.S.-USSR Apoll Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission. The large television monitor shows an interior view of the Soyuz Orbital Module with Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in front) visiting with Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov. Neil B. Hutchinson (right hand to chin) is the flight director for this shift.
Date Taken 1975-07-17
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