NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston celebrates its 50th anniversary

In 1965, NASA earned control of its space flight control center, known by the call sign of Houston. Center created for the landing of man on the moon. One of the most high-tech places on the planet cost 100 million dollars - today it is about 750 million. Equipment designed to perform a variety of scenarios, even the most unpredictable.

"Houston" continues to work, only the screens of computers have become more color and wide.

December 7, 1965

In the 1960s, the USSR and the USA competed in space exploration. To win the space race, NASA planned a landing on the moon, and designed the Mission Control Center near Houston, at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center to carry out this mission.
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In a press release about the launch of the center, NASA told about 16 thousand wires with two million connectors, 140 command consoles, 136 television cameras, 384 television receivers. In the center they made a pneumatic mail system with 53 stations, 1.6 kilometers of pipes and valves, which automatically delivered the message to the addressee.

And most importantly, the staff had a button that allowed them to take a screenshot and immediately print it on the printer.

The first mission managed by the new center was the flight of Gemini-4. Then the first American astronaut Edward White took off into outer space. To this date, NASA released a documentary about the spacewalk "Suit Up".