Mission control reactions, then and now
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One supposes that when it takes six months for your spacecraft to travel to a far-away planet, a team of scientists has plenty of time to practice the handshake-celebration for when it all goes according to plan.
Let's hit the NewsCut Wayback machine.
The moment Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, one of the flight controllers let out a whoop, only to be hushed by another controller taking a drag on a cigarette. Also, there were no women in the room.
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