Houston, We had no problem. 😉
Kathy & I visited the Space Center Houston Complex, including a tour of the Christopher C. Kraft Mission Control Center, which was the Mission Control made famous with the saying, but also for the center used in all of the Apollo missions and many Shuttle missions. The center has been completely restored, down to the butts in the ashtrays on the consoles. The idea was to make the center look like the workers just got up and went home for the day.
The presentation included snippets from the Apollo 11 mission which landed on the moon. For a long-time space buff it was truly a memorable visit!
This photo also looks pretty good (possibly better) in B&W:
Yes, the B&W looks better (at least, to me).
There are pluses for both, as Jeff mentions. The B&W version harkens back to the view we had on the TV at that time.
I like the glow of the color on the big front screens. Either way, I love the way it reminds me of all those times in my youth when I would sit, rapt with attention, watching the various missions that were controlled from that room. Nice.
It was fun watching the re-enactment as one would have seen it in person. We sat in what had been the VIP viewing room, as though we were family of the astronauts or members of the press. Very cool!
Wow! It seems like ages ago and it was. I had just finished boot camp and was in technical training school when this all happened. I was looking at my next trip was going to be Vietnam so the moon was out of the question. Amazing to think about the advancement of technology in those 50 plus years.
The controllers on the ground were still using calculators and slide rules in the early days. Technology has come a long way, mostly for the better.