The control room/blockhouse that was used for the Mercury program is still
intact at KSC. Andy Aldrin took me out to see it last time I was there but we
couldn’t go inside due to all the asbestos hanging and lying around. The pad
area has been completely cleared away in hopes of a new tenant or program
someday. It’s a low profile, windowless, concrete dome structure designed to
mitigate against blast effects that were not that uncommon on the pad back
then. I took a photo from the roof looking towards one of the old pad areas.
Notice the proximity and the periscopes. Maybe they can find a sponsor (they
don’t have the budget) to restore it as well. A lot of history was written
there as well.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
President/CEO
Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
<http://www.cesaronitech.com/> http://www.cesaronitech.com/
(941) 360-3100 x101 Sarasota
(905) 887-2370 x222 Toronto
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Subject: [NASA HQ News] NASA Invites Media to Opening of Newly-Restored Apollo
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June 20, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY M19-059
NASA Invites Media to Opening of Newly-Restored Apollo Mission Control Center
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Mission Operations Control Room in the Apollo Mission Control Center at NASA’s
Johnson Space Center in Houston
Credits: NASA
Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on the Moon.
Media are invited to join NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine for the reopening
of this historic and newly-restored facility at 9 a.m. CDT Friday, June 28.
To commemorate an accomplishment that forever changed the world, the Apollo
Mission Control Center
<https://www.nasa.gov/content/apollo-mission-control-center-0> has been
restored to appear as it did in that era just in time to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the Apollo 11
<https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html> Moon
landing <https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html> .
The event will begin in the Teague Auditorium at Johnson with speakers from
NASA and Space Center Houston, Johnson’s official visitors center, followed by
a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Media will have opportunities to interview NASA
officials, Space Center Houston leaders, restoration and preservation experts,
and Apollo alumni following the event.
U.S. reporters wishing to attend the event and/or reserve an interview
opportunity must contact Johnson's newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 26.
The program for the event is as follows:
9 to 9:45 a.m. – Opening remarks in Teague Auditorium
* NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
* Johnson Center Director Mark Geyer
* Space Center Houston President and CEO William Harris
* Apollo alumni
10:15 to 10:30 a.m. – Ribbon-cutting ceremony in the Apollo Mission Control
Center and first media opportunity to view the Apollo Mission Control Center
from visitor viewing room.
10:30 a.m. to noon – Second media opportunity to view Apollo Mission Control
Center from the visitor viewing room.
Find more information on the restoration project at:
<https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-historic-apollo-mission-control-center-will-be-restored>
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-historic-apollo-mission-control-center-will-be-restored
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