astronaut: (noun) A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft. Neil Armstrong became the first astronaut to walk on the

Inside NASA mission control

Chapter 1

The birth of Mission Control

Chapter 2

The Apollo 11 triumph

Chapter 3

The Apollo 13 rescue

Chapter 4

Modern Mission Control and the future

YOUR GOAL

Master of Inside NASA mission control

Ch 2 · The Apollo 11 triumph
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hank Route emergency power to the spacecraft to learn how NASA's Mission Control handles space crises.

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hank Apollo 11 Mission Control

We were twenty-eight in control (twenty-eight!) / Guiding the Eagle to its goal! (Yeah, we landed!)

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The silent three second delay

hank Communicating across 240,000 miles of empty space meant patience was a survival skill.

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Thirty seconds of fuel left

hank Neil Armstrong had to manually fly past a boulder field while the fuel clock ticked down.

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Fun Fact

The 1202 alarm: The famous Apollo 11 computer alarm occurred because the rendezvous radar was accidentally left on, flooding the computer with useless data.

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Glossary
astronaut (noun)
A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft. Neil Armstrong became the first astronaut to walk on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969.

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Gossip

Would you want to be the first person on Mars?

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Quiz

What date did the Apollo 11 Lunar Module land on the surface of the Moon?

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hank The silent three second delay

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Quiz

Which 24-year-old guidance officer made the split-second call to ignore the 1202 computer alarms?

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Quiz

Who was the Capcom that spoke to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 landing?

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Quiz

Why is the Capsule Communicator (Capcom) role in Mission Control always filled by an astronaut?

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Quiz

What was the name of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module that landed on the Moon?

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Quiz

Approximately how long does it take a radio signal to travel from the Moon to Earth?

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How much fuel was estimated to be left in the Lunar Module when it finally landed?

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What did the 1202 alarm on the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer mean?

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