Gallery: NASA Mission Control Marks 50 Superb Years of Space Science
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The Mission Control Center during NASA's Gemini-7 spaceflight, on December 7, 1965.
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MIssion Control Center during the Gemini Program.
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Mission Control during the early hours of the Gemini-Titan 4 spaceflight on June 3, 1965.
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Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee at console in the Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas during the Gemini-Titan 3 flight.
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NASA's Mission Control Center.
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Mission Control Center's Master Digital Command System.
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The exterior of the MCC in the 1960's.
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NASA Medical Team at the Mission Control Center.
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Three of the four Apollo 13 Flight Directors applaud the successful splashdown of the Command Module "Odyssey", on April 17, 1970).
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Window looking into the Mission Control Room.
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A group of key Skylab flight controllers and Johnson Space Center officials cluster around a flight console, on May 14, 1973.
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The older Mission Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The new facility in Houston replaced this one, a massive technological leap.
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Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center during the Skylab 2 flight, on May 25, 1973.
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Mission Operations Control Room, on 15 July 1975, on the first day of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in Earth orbit.
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