You can feel the history in the room from the monitors to the rotary dials.
Apollo 13 mission control room.
We were a bunch of young people that happened to be at the right place at the right time.
Those who watched the apollo 11 mission unfold remember what it was like to be in mission control.
Houston the storied room that first saw humans land on the moon has fallen into a shocking state of disrepair.
In fact from this room the nasa team exercised full mission control of apollo 11 from launch at the kennedy space center to splashdown in the pacific ocean.
Kranz travels all over the world giving a motivational lecture titled failure is not an option including the historic apollo 13 flight control room.
The crew instead looped around the moon and returned safely to earth on april 17.
12 failure is not an option was in fact coined by bill broyles one of the screenwriters of apollo 13 based on a similar statement made not by kranz but another member of the apollo 13.