Oh, I have really gone down the.... bat cave for this one! Just how did those big displays in Mission Control really work? Let me explore.... and Enjoy!
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12 thoughts on “How mission control’s big displays worked”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Anninos says:

    I was there about 10 years ago doing a video for the DoD. It was rather interesting to be there, just the 2 of us in what was once of the most imortant places in the world and the whole world watching! I actually tried to look behind the screens but the doors were locked. By then I'm assuming they had gone to giant LED screens but I always wanted to know!

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ed Herdman says:

    This reminds me that a few years ago a seller on eBay was hawking what they said was one of the large black message/timer boxes from the site. Side-by-side with control room photos, it looked like the real thing. I wish I remember more details, but I think the asking price was a mere $17,999!

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark O'Cain says:

    Amazing…I always wondered how that worked

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars james noyes says:

    You know so many things amazing

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars james noyes says:

    You are so clever & knowable about how things work

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TeamBridgeBSC says:

    Fascinating –

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Muoio says:

    Thank you so much! I am a big Apollo fan and this is one of the things I have wondered about literally every time I've seen it. I knew it had to be mechanical because of the era it was created (my era too… I was born in 1960) but now I really know how it worked. Thank you again. 👍

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hans Aarssen says:

    great item!! thx

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars thebunyip says:

    Fran. Do you know about the Bat Cave at DRL?

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Omar Riverstone says:

    I have always wondered how they did those! That and the giant live video screens at Freddie Mercury daytime shows. Is that the same tech as that fridge sized projector?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ATINKERER says:

    Fran, you are Amazing!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dergrinch69 says:

    Thank you! I always asked myself how this was accomplished and this is far more awesome than i thought.

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