Illustrations

1. John Aaron

2. Temporary MOCR access badges

3. Milt Heflin and Rick Houston visit the historic third-floor MOCR

4. John Llewellyn, Jim I’Anson, and Chuck Deiterich chat in the Trench

5. Mercury Control Center

6. Patricia White and Patricia McDivitt

7. Meeting at flight director’s console during flight of Gemini 5

8. Mission control overview during Apollo 8

9. Ken Mattingly

10. Gene Kranz’s Apollo 9 White Team

11. Flight controllers during Apollo 9 landing and recovery operations

12. Snoopy and Charlie Brown dolls overlook Charlie Duke

13. Jack Garman’s computer alarm cheat sheet

14. Charlie Duke during Apollo 11 landing

15. Dave Reed gets his launch plot board signed

16. Ken Mattingly during Apollo 13 launch

17. Mission control moments before start of Apollo 13 crisis

18. Glynn Lunney and Gene Kranz celebrate Apollo 13 splashdown

19. Sy Liebergot and Bill Moon

20. Charlie Harlan discusses a probe mockup with Gene Cernan and John Young

21. Ed Fendell

22. Neil Hutchinson, Gene Kranz, and Gerry Griffin

23. Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger lifts off of the lunar surface

24. Jay Greene following the breakup of the Space Shuttle Challenger

25. Marianne Dyson

26. 2005 NASA flight director class