Video: NASA’s Mission Control, Houston, Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Mission Control recognizes a half century of human spaceflight leadership from Houston on June 3, as it continues to support 24/7/365 operations in support of the International Space Station and prepares for the future of human exploration through the cosmos. The first spaceflight operated from Mission Control, Houston, was the Gemini IV mission launched on June 3, 1965, a flight that included the United States’ first spacewalk.

Firsts in space became the norm for the institution, highlighted by the landing of men on the moon during the Apollo Program; the first international mission between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project; the first U.S. space station flights during Skylab; the flights of the first reusable spacecraft during the space shuttle era, and the assembly and operation of the International Space Station. The video is dedicated to the men and women of Mission Control past, present and future.