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© 1. U.S. Navy — A Bell System switchboard where overseas calls are handled (1943) / 2. unknown — The control room of the BP refinery power station, Grangemouth, Scotland (1950s) / 3. Stanley Kubrick — Set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / 4. Zoltán Szalay — Tisza Chemical Combine (1965) / 5. Smithsonian — Radio / 6. Fortepan/Viktor Gábor — An engineer from the Ganz Áramméro Factory inspects the VKM type electric-wound switch clocks in Gödöllő (1967) / 7. FŐFOTO/Budapest Municipal Photography Company Archive — Control room (1969) / 8. JINR — Control panels of the Soviet JINR’s (Joint Institute of Nuclear Research) Synchrophasotron (1968) / 9. Budapest Municipal Photography Company Archive — Transmitter control room (Szigetszentmiklós) (1968) / 10. NASA — Annie Easley / 11. State Grid Corporation of China’s National Dispatching Center — Beijing dispatch centre controls / 12. NASA — Overall interior view of activity in the MOCR-MCC during the Gemini VII Earth-Orbital Mission. MSC, HOUSTON, TX / 13. NASA — NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong wearing “Snoopy” cap with Plantronics (SPENCOM) headsets.
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The world’s largest control room is the State Grid Corporation of China’s National Dispatching Center in Beijing. This massive control room is responsible for managing the world’s largest power grid, which supplies electricity to over a billion people. The centre features a gigantic video wall, spanning almost 100 metres in length (328 feet) and 25 metres in height (82 feet), displaying real-time data on electricity supply, demand, and grid stability across the entire country.
Interestingly, the control room for NASA’s Apollo missions, known as the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, has been preserved almost exactly as it was during the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. This iconic room, where flight directors and mission controllers monitored and communicated with astronauts, features vintage equipment, consoles, and even ashtrays. This control room has overseen some of the most significant events in space exploration history, including the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Interestingly, during the Apollo missions, the centre had a “snoopy cap”—a headset with a microphone used by astronauts—that became an iconic part of astronaut gear, nicknamed after the famous comic strip character Snoopy. While the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston is preserved as it was during the Apollo missions for visitors to experience the history and legacy of those missions, the active Mission Control Room, often referred to as “MCC” (Mission Control Center), is where current space missions are managed and operated.
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