Apollo XI vs Artemis II control room

by therealdan9999

15 Comments

  1. Not gonna lie the old one looked better.

    Gotta respect the technology and the achievement tho

  2. Apollo 8 is closest comparison. All I see is 11 being mentioned. 8 was first crewed to moon like this one but neither were to land. Both testing the equipment before next missions. Just sayn’.

  3. poisonandtheremedy on

    I’ve gotten to sit at the old Apollo desks while a friend of mine who worked at Johnson gave me a VVIP tour. Amazing experience. He then took me over to the modern mission control room (Artemis II pic) and got to watch them work (ISS) for a bit. 

  4. TheBigCicero on

    57 years ago we went to the moon with crappy 16kb CPUs and slide rules.
    Those people were OG badasses.

  5. If you take the tour at Johnson Space Center you will be *stunned* at how utterly unremarkable everything is. Most community college campuses these days are more visually interesting, and when you go into Mission Control area, it’s a tiny tiny little viewing room atop a smaller-than-you-think array of consoles.

    It’s easy to romanticize it all from afar. When you get up close you can better tell how very human it all was and is. The greatest thing ever accomplished was overseen in a shabby room by tired people inside a dull building.