{"id":598477,"date":"2026-04-10T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:14:16","slug":"whats-inside-nasas-mission-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598477\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Inside NASA\u2019s Mission Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between all the monitors, wires and keyboards are the normal trappings of a workplace: lunchboxes, water bottles, backpacks and smartphones.<\/p>\n

A Snoopy astronaut from the Apollo era.<\/p>\n

A model of the Orion capsule.<\/p>\n

A model of the Space Launch System rocket.<\/p>\n

A vase of roses brightens up the center of the room. Since the Challenger disaster in 1986, a couple in Houston has sent more than a hundred bouquets to mission control to commemorate NASA\u2019s space launches and honor the lives of fallen astronauts.<\/p>\n

Mission control is in a new room, and looks a little different than in the Apollo era. Wood desks have replaced green metal mainframes, and the ashtrays and rotary phones are gone.<\/p>\n

The mission control in the Apollo era. Source: NASA.<\/p>\n

Mission control for Artemis II.<\/p>\n

But the bones of the operation have not changed, said Judd Frieling, one of the Artemis II flight directors, who spoke from mission control to reporters on Saturday. Every spacecraft needs similar systems \u2014 propulsion, navigation and the like \u2014 to succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re building upon the giants that started it back in the Apollo era,\u201d Mr. Frieling said. \u201cWe continued our evolution during the space shuttle program, during the International Space Station program and now on to the Artemis program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between all the monitors, wires and keyboards are the normal trappings of a workplace: lunchboxes, water bottles, backpacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[291202,216873,64,63,291912,20472,68808,286441,128,285,20031],"class_list":{"0":"post-598477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-apollo-project","9":"tag-artemis-program","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-houston-tex","13":"tag-johnson-space-center","14":"tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","15":"tag-rocket-science-and-propulsion","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-space-and-astronomy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}