Media Group: MISSION CONTROL ROOM

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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
Clifford Charlesworth seated …
Title Clifford Charlesworth seated at his console in Mission Control Room
Description Clifford E. Charlesworth, Apollo 8 "Green Team" Flight Director, is seated at his console in Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the launch of the Apollo 8 (Spacecraft 103/Saturn 503) manned lunar orbit space mission.
Date Taken 1968-12-21
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
Overal view of Mission Contr …
Title Overal view of Mission Control Center during Gemini-Titan 3 flight
Description Overall view of Mission Control Center - Houston during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
Date Taken 1963-03-23
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 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
Overall view of Mission Cont …
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
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
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 duri …
Title View of Mission Control during Skylab 3 flyaround
Description Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC), bldg 30, at JSC during the Skylab 3 flyaround inspection of the Skylab Earth-orbiting cluster.
Date Taken 1973-07-31
NASA administrative personne …
Title NASA administrative personnel seen in the Mission Control Center-Houston
Description Flight Director John D. Hedge (left), Chief, Flight Control Division, Glynn S. Lunney (standing left), Chief, Flight Dynamics Branch, Flight Control Division, and James W. Beach, Assistant Flight Director for Gemini-Titan 3, are shown in the Mission Control Center - Houston during the GT-3 flight.
Date Taken 1963-03-23
View of Mercury Control Cent …
Title View of Mercury Control Center prior to MA-8 flight
Description View of Mercury Control Center prior to the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) flight of the Sigma 7.
Date Taken 1962-09-10
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
View of the Mission Control …
Title View of the Mission Control Center during MR-4 mission
Description View of the Mission Control Center at Cape Canaveral during the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) mission. Astronauts John Glenn (left) and L. Gordon Cooper (right) act as spacecraft communicators (CAPCOMS).
Date Taken 1961-07-21
View of Mission Control duri …
Title View of Mission Control during Gemini 6 mission
Description View of Mission Control during Gemini 6 mission.
Date Taken 1965-12-15
Vice President Hubert Humphr …
Title Vice President Hubert Humphrey during visit to Mission Control Cape Kennedy
Description Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (left) during visit to the Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy during the Gemini 3 mission.
Date Taken 1965-04-14
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
Mission Control Center durin …
Title Mission Control Center during Gemini 7 flight
Description Interior of the Mission Control Center during the Gemini 7 space flight.
Date Taken 1965-12-07
View of the tracking screen …
Title View of the tracking screen in the Mission Control Center
Description View of the tracking screen at the front of the Mission Control Center.
Date Taken 1965-08-27
Christopher Kraft monitors c …
Title Christopher Kraft monitors console in Mission Control Center during flight
Description Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (left), Assistant Director for Flight Operation, monitors his console in the Mission Control Center during the Gemini 7 space flight.
Date Taken 1965-12-07
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous
Description Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. with a cigar during the rendezvous.
Date Taken 1965-12-12
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control watch Gemini 8 launch on their screens
Description Personnel in Mission Control watch Gemini 8 launch on their screens.
Date Taken 1966-03-16
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous
Description Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. completes his notes by congratulating Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Dr. Robert R. Gilruth.
Date Taken 1965-12-12
Personnel in Mission Control …
Title Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 10 flight
Description Personnel in Mission Control during Gemini 10 flight.
Date Taken 1966-07-18
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
View of the interior of the …
Title View of the interior of the Mission Control Center at KSC during Gemini 6
Description View of the interior of the Mission Control Center at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during the Gemini 6 launch.
Date Taken 1965-12-15
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
Views of Mission Control dur …
Title Views of Mission Control during MA-6 flight
Description During the first orbit (see Friendship 7 spacecraft just leaving eastern Australia on World Map at front of room) Mercury control personnel were hard at work monitoring the spacecraft.
Date Taken 1962-02-20
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
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
Firing Room 3 of Launch Cont …
Title Firing Room 3 of Launch Control Center, Launch Complex 39 countdown test
Description Overall view of the Firing Room 3 of the Launch Control Center, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, during an Apollo 10 Countdown Demonstration Test. The Launch Control Center is at the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Date Taken 1969-05-13
Views of Mission Control in …
Title Views of Mission Control in Houston during Gemini 4 flight
Description Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Assistant Director for Flight Operations, at his console in the Mission Control Center, during the Gemini 4 flight. He served as mission director and as a flight director (28462), During the Gemini 4 space flight in the Mission Control Center are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (left), Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, and Paul Haney, Manned Spaceflight Center (MSC) Public Affairs Officer (28643).
Date Taken 1965-06-09
Personnel discussing Gemini …
Title Personnel discussing Gemini 11 space flight in Mission Control
Description Discussing the Gemini 11 space flight in the Mission Control Center are: (left to right) Christopher C. Kraft Jr., (wearing glasses), Director of Flight Operations, Charles W. Mathews (holding phone), Manager, Geminin Program Office, Dr. Donald K. Slayton (center, checked coat), Director of Flight Crew Operations, Astronaut William A. Anders, and Astronaut John W. Young.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Mission Control Center at Ca …
Title Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy after Gemini 5 launch
Description Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy moments after the Gemini 5 was launched from Pad 19. Standing at right is Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, Manned Spacecraft Center. Seated (wearing dark shirt) is Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart. Other NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Col. personnel also monitor the progress of the flight.
Date Taken 1965-08-21
Mission Control Center at Ca …
Title Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy during Gemini 4
Description Shown at their consoles during the lift off of Gemini 4 are (from left) Astronauts Clifford C. Williams Jr., Frank Borman, and Alan B. Shepard Jr. The three astronauts monitored the flight from the Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. The NASA Headquarters alternative photo number is 65-H-927.
Date Taken 1965-06-03
Astronauts Grissom and Glenn …
Title Astronauts Grissom and Glenn hold discussion in Mercury Control Center
Description Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (left) and John H. Glenn Jr. hold discussion in Mercury Control Center during Mercury-Atlas 6 preflight activity. Glenn is the MA-6 pilot. Grissom was the pilot for the Mercury-Redstone 4 space flight made on July 21, 1961.
Date Taken 1964-01-07
Firing Room 2 in Launch Cont …
Title Firing Room 2 in Launch Control Center at KSC during Apollo 9 countdown test
Description Overall view of Firing Room 2 in the Launch Control Center, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, during an Apollo 9 Countdown Demonstration Test. Note the screen in the upper left side of the photograph which shows the Apollo 9 space vehicle on the launch pad.
Date Taken 1969-02-23
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