With those words, NASA Public Affairs Officer Jack King punctuated  his narrative of the countdowns for America's Apollo missions from 1968 to 1975.

At the center of the action during the countdown were the Firing Rooms in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39. On launch day, over 440 men and women sat in one of the cavernous Firing Rooms to monitor and control all aspects of the vehicle preparation and launch.

Astronaut Gene Cernan wrote in The Last Man on the Moon, "Sometimes it seems that Apollo came before its time. President Kennedy reached far into the twenty-first century, grabbed a decade of time, and slipped it neatly into the 1960s and 1970s." As the Apollo era recedes and memories fade, people wonder, "How we were ever able to send men to the Moon with 1960s technology?" This website is intended to help answer that question.

This website is, first and foremost, a celebration of the people and equipment that built, tested, and launched the vehicles of Mankind's greatest voyages of exploration. It is also a resource for historians and collectors of space artifacts from the Apollo era. You'll see photos and diagrams of equipment and facilities as they existed during the Apollo era, with an description of how they supported a launch. You'll also see surviving examples of this hardware from museums and private collections.

Most of the information in this website is taken directly from source documents from the 1960s and 1970s.