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چاند پرکمند ڈالنے والے مشن کو یادگار بنانے کےاقدام
20 جولائی 1969 کو نیل آرم اسٹرانگ نے چاند پر پہلا قدم رکھ کے انسانی تاریخ میں نئے باب کا اضافہ کیا تھا۔
Mission Control restored
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Published : Jun 28, 2019, 3:20 PM IST
امریکی خلائی سیںٹر ناسا نے اپنے اپولو 11 مشن کے کنٹرول روم کا تجدید نو کیا گیا ہے تاکہ وہ بالکل ویسا ہی دکھے جیسا 50 سال قبل تھا۔
20 جولائی 1969 کو نیل آرم اسٹرانگ نے چاند پر پہلا قدم رکھ کے انسانی تاریخ میں نئے باب کا اضافہ کیا تھا۔ اس پرجیکٹ کو ریٹائرڈ فلائٹ ڈائرکٹر گینی کرانز کی جانب سے منظوری ملی تھی۔
گینی کرانز اپولو 11 اور اپولو 13 جیسے کئی خلائی مشنوں پر کام کرچکے ہیں۔
گنی کا کہنا ہے کہ 'ان خالی کرسیوں کو دیکھ کر مجھے وہ پل یاد آتا ہے جب شفٹ بدلتی تھی اور سبھی لوگ رسٹ روم میں چلا جاتے تھے'۔
ناسا کی جانب سے یہ اقدام مشن اپولو 11 کی 50 ویں سالگرہ کے پیش نظر اٹھایا گیا ۔
ناسا کے اس پروجیکٹ کا مقصد 20 جولائی 1969 کے اس دلچسپ منظر کو یاد کرنا ہے جب چاند پر پہلی بار کسی انسان نے قدم رکھا تھا۔
جونسن اسپیس سینٹر کی ایک افسر، سینڈرا تیتلی نے اس مشن پر سال 2013 سے ہی کام کرنا شروع کریا تھا، اس سے قبل یہ کنٹرول روم عدم توجہی کا شکار ہوا تھا۔
تیتلی اور ان کی ٹیم نے مشن اپولو 11 پر کام کرنے والے سبھی فلائٹ کنٹرولرز سے ملاقات کرکے ان سے اس لمحے کے بارے میں زیادہ سے زیادہ جانکاری حاصل کرنے کی کوشش کی۔
گینی کرانز آج بھی اس پل کو یاد کرکے فخر محسوس کرتے ہیں۔
مشن اپولو 11 سے وابستہ فلائٹ کنٹرولرز ہر سال اس دن جشن مناتے ہیں تاہم ان میں سے کئی اب اس دنیا میں نہیں ہیں۔
امریکی خلائی سیںٹر ناسا نے اپنے اپولو 11 مشن کے کنٹرول روم کا تجدید نو کیا گیا ہے تاکہ وہ بالکل ویسا ہی دکھے جیسا 50 سال قبل تھا۔
20 جولائی 1969 کو نیل آرم اسٹرانگ نے چاند پر پہلا قدم رکھ کے انسانی تاریخ میں نئے باب کا اضافہ کیا تھا۔ اس پرجیکٹ کو ریٹائرڈ فلائٹ ڈائرکٹر گینی کرانز کی جانب سے منظوری ملی تھی۔
گینی کرانز اپولو 11 اور اپولو 13 جیسے کئی خلائی مشنوں پر کام کرچکے ہیں۔
گنی کا کہنا ہے کہ 'ان خالی کرسیوں کو دیکھ کر مجھے وہ پل یاد آتا ہے جب شفٹ بدلتی تھی اور سبھی لوگ رسٹ روم میں چلا جاتے تھے'۔
ناسا کی جانب سے یہ اقدام مشن اپولو 11 کی 50 ویں سالگرہ کے پیش نظر اٹھایا گیا ۔
ناسا کے اس پروجیکٹ کا مقصد 20 جولائی 1969 کے اس دلچسپ منظر کو یاد کرنا ہے جب چاند پر پہلی بار کسی انسان نے قدم رکھا تھا۔
جونسن اسپیس سینٹر کی ایک افسر، سینڈرا تیتلی نے اس مشن پر سال 2013 سے ہی کام کرنا شروع کریا تھا، اس سے قبل یہ کنٹرول روم عدم توجہی کا شکار ہوا تھا۔
تیتلی اور ان کی ٹیم نے مشن اپولو 11 پر کام کرنے والے سبھی فلائٹ کنٹرولرز سے ملاقات کرکے ان سے اس لمحے کے بارے میں زیادہ سے زیادہ جانکاری حاصل کرنے کی کوشش کی۔
گینی کرانز آج بھی اس پل کو یاد کرکے فخر محسوس کرتے ہیں۔
مشن اپولو 11 سے وابستہ فلائٹ کنٹرولرز ہر سال اس دن جشن مناتے ہیں تاہم ان میں سے کئی اب اس دنیا میں نہیں ہیں۔
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
NASA - AP CLIENTS ONLY
ARCHIVE - The Moon - 20 July 1969
1. Apollo 11 lunar module landing
2. Lunar module lands, UPSOUND: "Tranquility base, the eagle has landed."
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ARCHIVE - Houston, Texas - 20 July 1969
3. Colour footage inside Houston mission control, view inside monitor as astronauts walk on moon, zoom out to mission control
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Houston, Texas – 17 June 2019
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director:
"I look at it as a leadership laboratory where a bunch of young people come in and it's pass fail. Are they going to become leaders, yes or no?"
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ARCHIVE - Houston, Texas - 20 July 1969
5. Mission Control worker watching pictures from the moon
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Houston, Texas – 17 June 2019
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director:
"It was now upon my team and the crew. Nobody else in the world existed. Not even all the bosses in the back row or all of the living room."
NASA - AP CLIENTS ONLY
ARCHIVE - The Moon - 20 July 1969
7. Astronauts walking on the moon
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Houston, Texas – 17 June 2019
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director:
"I hear these words, 'Houston Tranquility Base here the Eagle has landed.' And this room was almost strange at that time because the viewing room were celebrating, they're cheering, they're stomping but we got to maintain control and the vision and what's happened to that spacecraft."
9. Various Mission Control Center exteriors
10. Various of mission control panels that are being restored to 1960s appearance
11. Wide of inside mission control as it's being refurbished
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director:
"When I walked into the viewing room before and I saw this entire room lit up. It was almost like, we're between shifts and there's a shift change or everybody's out for a restroom break. So, this room is now empty, it's going to soon be filled."
13. Various details of control panels and old technology
14. Gardner with historic preservation team, shot tilts down to his old desk position
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Spencer Gardner, Flight Activity Officer Apollo 11:
"Because I remember seeing it before the restoration started and it looked like neglect."
16. Placard which explains restoration project
17. Wide, people touring control room
18. Wide of control panels
19. Detail of communications buttons
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Sandra Tetley, Johnson Space Center Historic Preservation Officer:
"Even the carpeting and the wallpaper, that was recreated. They worked with us to make those things happen."
21. Various angles of jumbo screens
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director:
"That's interesting, just talking. One more thing interesting, there was a telephone behind here. OK."
23. Various of restored control stations
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Kranz, Apollo 11 Flight Director:
"Apollo 11 was the most difficult because we had to be perfect on the spot we had whatever calls we made had to be right and if they weren't right, we'd lose the mission."
NASA - AP CLIENTS ONLY
The Moon - 20 July 1969
25. Astronauts bouncing around on moon
STORYLINE:
NASA's Apollo-era Mission Control in Houston has been restored to the way it looked 50 years ago when two men walked on the moon, with only a few exceptions.
It gets the stamp of approval from retired flight director Gene Kranz, a man for whom failure - or even a minor oversight - is never an option.
Seated at the console where he ruled over Apollo 11, Apollo 13 and so many other astronaut missions, Kranz pointed out that a phone was missing behind him. And he said the air vents used to be black from all the smoke, not sparkly clean like they are now.
Those couple of details aside, Kranz could close, then open his eyes, and transport himself back to July 20, 1969, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's momentous moon landing.
"When I sit down here and I'm in the chair at the console ... I hear these words, 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed,'" Kranz said during a sneak preview at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
With all the empty seats, the room reminds him of a shift change when flight controllers would hit the restroom.
Friday's grand opening - just three weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of humanity's first otherworldly footsteps - culminates years of work and millions in donations. It opens to the public on Monday.
Meticulously recreated down to the tan carpeting, gray-green wallpaper, white ceiling panels, woven-cushioned seats, amber glass ashtrays and retro coffee cups, Project Apollo's Mission Operations Control Room never looked - or smelled - so good.
The goal was "to capture the look and feel of July of '69," said NASA's restoration project manager Jim Thornton.
Johnson's historic preservation officer, Sandra Tetley, strove for accuracy. Her quest began in 2013, after the room had fallen into neglect. It was last used for space shuttle flights in the 1990s, then abandoned and opened to tourists.
The restoration effort finally got traction in 2017. The room was closed, and construction began. More than US$5 million was raised, most of it donations. The city of Webster across the street kicked in US$3.5 million.
Tetley and her team interviewed flight controllers and directors now in their 70s and 80s. They pored through old pictures and brought in specialists in paint, wallpaper, carpeting, electricity and upholstery. Original swatches of carpet and wallpaper and an original ceiling tile turned up.
Intent on authenticity, they scoured eBay and vintage shops for ashtrays and cups and turned to 3D-laser printing to recreate lids for the back-of-the-seat ashtrays in the glassed-in visitors' section overlooking the control room. Old binders for reams of paper were collected. Seat cushions were handwoven. Ceiling tiles were hand stamped.
Carpeting was custom ordered with special tufting and extra yarn, then cut into 28-inch squares. The restoration team wanted a lived-in look for the carpet and chose a shade reflecting years of nicotine discoloring.
The green consoles were trucked to the Cosmosphere museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, for months of rehabilitation. Cigarette butts were dug out of the consoles, along with gum wrappers and papers.
Modern LED lights and flat screens were installed to bring the consoles alive with images and flashing buttons; big screens up front will show key footage from the Apollo 11 mission.
"We're using technology to make it look old, basically," Tetley explained. LEDs also replaced the original overhead fluorescent lights that had faded the mission medallions on the walls.
With the International Space Station's Mission Control running 24/7 one floor down and work for future moonshots going on all around, Thornton said it was challenging to create a museum. But the painstaking work paid off. Some Apollo flight controllers were so moved at seeing the restored room that they teared up.
There's one artifact, though, that doesn't fit July 1969. Following their 1970 aborted moon-landing mission, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert presented a mirror from their spacecraft to Kranz and the rest of the control team. Ever since, the mirror had hung on a plaque above the room's water fountain.
Removed during the restoration, it's now back in its original spot.
Kranz, 85, still looms large in the hot seat, where he oversaw the Eagle's landing.
The flight controllers meet every year to celebrate the day, although their numbers are dwindling.
They're proud to have helped resuscitate their Mission Control: "Part of our legacy we're going to leave for the next generation."
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