Overall view showing some of the feverish activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston during the final 24 hours of the problem-plagued Apollo 13 mission. Here, flight controllers and several officials confer at the flight director's console.
Overall view showing some of the feverish activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston during the final 24 hours of the problem-plagued Apollo 13 mission. Here, flight controllers and several officials confer at the flight director’s console. When this picture was taken, the Apollo 13 lunar landing had already been canceled, and the Apollo 13 crewmembers were in trans-Earth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home.