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View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 problem

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo13-30017

Image Size 300 DPI: 34 * 22 cm

Dr. Thomas O. Paine, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), talks on the telephone to President Richard M. Nixon. Dr. Paine is seated at his console in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at the Mission Control Center (MCC), Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). Also pictured are Dr. Rocco Petrone, Apollo program director, Office Manned Spaceflight, NASA Headquarters (facing camera); and Chester M. Lee, Apollo mission director, Office of Manned Spaceflight, NASA Headquarters (HQ). Dr. Paine and the President were discussing the revised Apollo 13 flight plan following discovery of an oxygen cell failure in the Apollo 13 spacecraft several hours earlier. April 14, 1970.

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1970 - ACCIDENT - APOLLO - APOLLO 13 - BLACK AND WHITE - CONTROL ROOM - FAILURE - HOUSTON - MAN - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - NIXON RICHARD - PAINE THOMAS - USA -