NASA Photo ID: S70-35368           File Name: 10075501.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW                 Date Taken: 04/16/70
Title: View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 emergency return
Description:
Overall view showing some of the activity in the Mission Operations Control 
Room (MOCR) of the Mission Control Center (MCC) during the final 24 hours
of  the Apollo 13 mission. Here, flight controllers and several NASA/MSC 
officials confer at the flight director's console. When this picture was 
made, the Apollo 13 moon landing had been cancelled and the Apollo 13
crewmen  were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled
spacecraft  back home (35368); Discussion in the MOCR dealing with the
Apollo 13 crewmen  during their final day in space. From left to right are
Glynn S. Lunney,  Shift 4 Flight Director; Gerald D. Griffin, SHift 2
Flight Director;  Astronaut James A. McDivitt, Manager, APollo Spacecraft
Program, MSC; Dr.  Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations,
MSC; and Dr. Willard  R. Hawkins, M.D., Shift 1 Flight Surgeon (35369).           

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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