Legendary NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American Astronautical Society at his restored console in Apollo mission ...

"The people that lived and worked here, the room talks to them," Kranz said. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20, NASA has restored the Apollo 11 mission control center to its ...

Nasa has held a grand reopening of its Mission Control room from the Apollo days after it was meticulously restored to the way it looked 50 years ago. The site at Johnson Space Centre in Houston was ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Apollo Mission Control Center once buzzed with excitement as flight controllers communicated with the first astronauts to ...

Houston, we have ... an IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon their dreams of reaching the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered some ...

"It was the kind of thing that only happens once in your life," Kranz said. As millions around the world watched the first lunar landing attempt, the employees at NASA's mission control center in ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...