My New Desk As a child, I used to draw […]

My New Desk

As a child, I used to draw pictures of consoles like this. It’s an Apollo two-terminal console from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, or simply “Houston” as the astronauts called it. This particular console was also used in the filming of the movie Apollo 13. I have not found that footage yet, but here is a great photo essay on mission control: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/going-boldly-what-it-was-like-to-be-an-apollo-flight-controller/

Since then, it has been upgraded for the Shuttle program for K-band and S-band support for Shuttle command and control. And this panel was used during the Challenger explosion in 1986.

I might need to power it up… the inner sections are fully populated with the original electronics.