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Apollo 13 has been hailed as one of NASA’s greatest accomplishments, but even great accomplishments don’t go perfectly. Considering only Mission Control (which includes the Mission Operations Control Room, the Staff Support Rooms, and the Simulation Control Room) and the Mission Evaluation Room, what lessons can be learned about what could have been better prepared for, or done better at the time?

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the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 13 mission that never made it to the moon, the one where Commander Jim Lovell uttered the phrase “Houston, we've had a problem.” NASA calls the mission a “successful failure,” because even though an explosion crippled the primary spacecraft two days in, Lovel

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