NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that manages flight control
White Flight Control Room prior to STS-114 in 2005
Exterior of the Mission Control building
Mercury Control at Cape Canaveral during a simulation of Mercury-Atlas 8 in 1962
MOCR 2 at the conclusion of Apollo 11 in 1969
Gene Kranz
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Eugene Francis Kranz is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar land
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Kranz at his console on May 30, 1965, in the Mission Operations Control Room, Mission Control Center, Houston.
President Nixon visits the Johnson Space Center on April 18, 1970, to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team
Kranz in July 2019, while attending events at Space Center Houston