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, ...

NASA's first lunar campaign in five decades since the Apollo era came to an end should be a little more technologically advanced than its 1960s-70s counterpart. The U.S. space agency has a brand new ...

With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA's Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room ...

The next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time in over 60 years, is so full of new tech that NASA reportedly needed a new control room just to manage ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Plans to restore the NASA mission control room that served as the nerve center for the Apollo missions, when man first reached the moon, have been discussed for more than 20 years, but ...

The control room is being designed to optimize operator performance during long shifts monitoring a rover on the moon. Researchers are studying factors like room layout, lighting, and break areas to ...

Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson ...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center achieved key 2025 milestones, including Artemis II Orion stacking, lunar payload deliveries, ...

Dozens of engineers will monitor the Artemis II Orion spacecraft along its journey in 2026 while collecting data from the new room inside Houston's Mission Control Center. NASA's Artemis program is ...