You can feel the history in the room from the monitors to the rotary dials.
Apollo 13 mission control room.
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the apollo space program and the third meant to land on the moon the craft was launched from kennedy space center on april 11 1970 but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module sm failed two days into the mission.
Overall view of the mission operations control room in the mission control center building 30 manned spacecraft center showing the flight controllers celebrating the successful conclusion of.
The crew instead looped around the moon and returned safely to earth on april 17.
Kranz travels all over the world giving a motivational lecture titled failure is not an option including the historic apollo 13 flight control room.
12 failure is not an option was in fact coined by bill broyles one of the screenwriters of apollo 13 based on a similar statement made not by kranz but another member of the apollo 13.
Those who watched the apollo 11 mission unfold remember what it was like to be in mission control.
In fact from this room the nasa team exercised full mission control of apollo 11 from launch at the kennedy space center to splashdown in the pacific ocean.