The consoles in Mission Control were upgraded to support the more ambitious mission, though the restored changes may not be readily apparent to those who visit the room.

Employees from the Cosmosphere space museum in Hutchinson are helping to recreate one of the biggest moments in our nation’s space history: the mission control room used during the first moon ...

Inside Mission Operations Control Room-2 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Apollo-era consoles have been prepared for their move to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.

NASA used the mission control room with its monochrome computer monitors and rotary dial telephones starting in 1965. ... "All the consoles have to be removed, restored, buttons replaced ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) – The Cosmosphere Space Museum in Hutchinson has spent a year and a half restoring mission control consoles from the Apollo-era. “These were the consoles that helped us ...

Detail of the restored Historic Mission Control consoles, which helped land humans on the Moon were unveiled at Ellington Field Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Houston.

After several of the metallic capsules used to transfer messages from one room to another began to pile up next to the consoles. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

Last month, the Johnson Space Center in Houston unveiled a fully restored historic Apollo Mission Control Room, returned to its original 1969 condition and open to the public just in ...

On board are restored consoles from the historic @NASA_Johnson Mission Control. It’s part of the build up to next year’s 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. I’ll have more later on #khou11 ...

There is far more to Mission Control, however, than the control room. For each console there is a staff support room down the hall manned by a dozen or more experts.

David W. Brown, a longtime space writer and author of the book “The Mission,” spent days observing SpaceX’s mission control room in Hawthorne, Calif., to report this article. Published Dec ...