Apollo 11 JSC KSC Flight Control, pre-launch
All these people had to get paid. Even when there wasn’t a launch. Well, to be exact: until the money was spent and there weren’t gonna be any more launches, which was a few years from this photo.
From the new NASA Flickr database.
That looks like KSC to me.
Yeah, and SpaceX requires how big a launch crew? Falcon 1 ground crew is 25 and 6 people in mission control.
Ah, meant Florida. I always mix up the center names! This is launch control and not mission control that was in Houston indeed.
Well, it’s a rhetorical statement. I think all this must be remembered from Apollo. It was not a sustainable program, though of course a lot was learned. (Sometimes wrong things were learned)