NASA Photo ID: S70-35012           File Name: 10075497.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW                 Date Taken: 04/15/70
Title: View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure
Description:
Two phases of busy activity during critical moments of the Apollo 13
mission  are reflected in this view in the Mission Control Center (MCC),
bldg 30,  Manned Spacecraft Center (MCC). In the foreground, Henry Simmons
(left) of  Newsweek magazine and John E. Riley, Public Information
Specialist, Public  Affairs Office, MCC, man their positions in the Press
Room. At extreme left  of photo, Gerald D. Griffin, Shift 2 Flight
Director, talks on telephone in  Mission Operations Control Room. When this
photograph was taken, the Apollo  13 lunar landing had been cancelled, and
the problem-plagued Apollo 13  crewmen were in transearth trajectory
attempting to bring their crippled  spacecraft back home.             

Subject terms:
APOLLO 13                               
APOLLO PROJECT                          
ASTRONAUTS                              
CONSOLES                                
EMERGENCIES                             
FAILURE ANALYSIS                        
FLIGHT CONTROL                          
GROUND BASED CONTROL                    
INTEGRATED MISSION CONTROL CENTER       
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER                    
PERSONNEL                               
TEXAS                                   

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