The Apollo-era Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) has undergone a restoration. See:

https://apnews.com/12556818033a470d823168a37f57ed6c

Also, Gener Kranz talks about the restoration and the heady days of Apollo:

https://youtu.be/nPLnaXAm6ZI

Also, a friend mentions the Apollo 11 tapes in the news at the moment:

You might see media reports today – like the one below….

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/28/apollo-11-tapes-moon-landing-sale-value-nearly-lost

Apollo 11 tapes bought for $218 may sell for millions after nearly being lost

Tapes identified in 2008 as the only surviving original recording of the first moon landing in 1969 are to go up for auction in July

Sat 29 Jun 2019 AEST

When Gary George bought a truckload of videotapes for $218 from a US government surplus auction more than 40 years ago, he planned to sell them to television stations – to record over.

For what it’s worth, I thought I’d mention that the tape search team is familiar with the background to these tapes. We evaluated them, more than 10 years ago, for the EVA TV restoration effort.

They are NTSC 525 line quad tapes recorded at Houston – so not slow scan – and not unique either.

There are quite a few “original recordings” of the converted TV – of variable quality.

While these tapes are quite good, they are certainly not “the only surviving original recording”.

I thought I should mention that, in case you were thinking of starting a fundraising campaign to buy them. ;-)

(I’ve seen reports that Sotheby’s hopes for $2.5 million for them.)

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/one-small-step-one-rare-recording-see-the-moon-landing-like-never-before

I certainly wish the seller well!

Another article on the restoration, with some nice pictures:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/behind-the-scenes-at-nasas-newly-restored-historic-apollo-mission-control/

Obviousman said:

Another article on the restoration, with some nice pictures:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/behind-the-scenes-at-nasas-newly-restored-historic-apollo-mission-control/

Those console screens are really packed with information. Plenty of buttons on each, too, wouldn’t want to press the wrong one.

mollwollfumble said:

Obviousman said:

Another article on the restoration, with some nice pictures:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/behind-the-scenes-at-nasas-newly-restored-historic-apollo-mission-control/

Those console screens are really packed with information. Plenty of buttons on each, too, wouldn’t want to press the wrong one.

A bit of trivia – With the technology they had back then, they couldn’t actually combine the telemetry data on a screen as well as the labels for each data set, so they just arranged a CRT to display the numbers and had a metal (??) screen over the top of it that had the labels in the right places, with holes in it so the data could shown through, then had a video camera capture the whole screen which was then displayed on the final screen in Mission Control.