NPR

The history of the out-of-this-world playlist NASA uses to wake up mission crews

It's become a tradition: NASA's ground control plays music to wake up the astronauts on a mission. NASA's chief historian Brian Odom shares the history of the practice. As the Artemis II astronauts ...
Space.com

Mission Control 'members only': NASA flight directors don new jacket

There are fewer of them then there are astronauts and no NASA spaceflight would be a success without them at the helm. Yet, if the public knows anything about them it is likely 50-year-old history, ...
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Inside Artemis II mission control, the nerve center for NASA’s next Moon flight

HOUSTON, When four astronauts strap into NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years, their safety will depend not just on the vehicle but on a layered network of ...
Phys.org

Artemis mission shares office space—and physics—with Apollo

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago. At the ...
CNN

Behind-the-scenes secrets of NASA mission control

Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida has witnessed the liftoff of several historic Apollo missions, including the one in 1969 that put humans on the moon for the first time, and the ...