Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 96, Restoring the Apollo Mission Control Center. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the experts,

scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know the coolest information

about what's going on right here at NASA. So if you're following along with

our episodes, you'll know that we've been revisiting some of the historic Apollo missions

in celebration of their 50th anniversaries.

And we're coming up on a big one, the 50th anniversary of the mission that put the

boots of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon.

There's a lot of work being done in celebration of this anniversary.

And today we're going to be discussing one of the more ambitious projects, restoring the historic Apollo Mission Control Center.

This includes the Mission Operations Control Room 2, more commonly known here as Moaker 2,

the Visitor's Viewing Room room and the simulation control room and a room

called the Bat Cave super cool and we'll get into what that is. Many human

spaceflight missions were controlled out of this center most of the Gemini and Apollo missions including Apollo 11, the first

landing of humans on the moon.

The building where all of these live are within the Johnson Space Center is called

Building 30, which was given national historic

landmark status in 1985.

It's been toured over the years, hundreds of people walking in and out, and through that

came more wear and tear on this national icon. Soon it just wasn't the same as it used to be.

Now we're nearing the end of a project spanning six years to restore this historic landmark to look exactly as it did in July 1969, capturing the essence of what it was like five decades

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