46 years ago today on January 9, 1968, NASA publicly announced the crew of Apollo 11. Just over six months later, on July 20, crewmember Neil Armstrong reported back to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, a phrase that would sound across the world and change humanity forever – "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." That call came to the historic Apollo Mission Control Center at Lyndon B. Johnson Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas, where astronauts communicated mission operations back to Earth.
In this room, one can truly feel the history of the room from the monitors, large buttons, endless spools of paper and rotary dials. Today, it is a protected, National Historic Landmark.
The red phone pictured here was a direct link for the mission control team and the Department of Defense if operational contingencies needed to be planned while the crew was off of Earth.
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