What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

On this historic day, CW39 was granted rare access to the White Flight Control Room inside NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a behind-the-scenes look at Mission Control.

HOUSTON (AP) — Gone is the haze of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. Gone are the coffee, soda and pizza stains. With only a few exceptions, NASA's Apollo-era Mission Control has been restored to the way it looked 50 years ago when two men landed on the moon.

As of 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday, April 6, the Artemis II crew is over 244,500 miles from Earth, hurtling through space at 1,161 mph towards the moon, according to NASA's Artemis II tracker. The crew has less than 20,