Located at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, established in 1962, is Lighthouse Country's research and development base for manned space shuttles and a hub for manned space flight operations and control. It is also one of the largest space research centers under NASA.
This was also the control center for the first human lunar mission in 1969.
The first word spoken on the Moon was "Houston," which made "Houston, we have a problem" an iconic line.
In a corner of the Houston command center, there's an inconspicuous small office.
The office isn't large, furnished with a few desks and an old computer, and on the wall hangs a photo of the Apollo 17 astronauts, commemorating that glorious lunar mission.
It was now the summer of 2024, and a half-century had passed since Apollo 17 last set foot on the Moon.
With the advancement of technology and the deepening of human space exploration, the glory days of the Apollo era seemed to become part of history.
