Overview
A touchscreen-kiosk installation at Space Center Houston that opens up the historic NASA mission-control roster covering Spring 1948 through Fall 1992 — the full Mercury / Gemini / Apollo / Skylab / early-Shuttle window that ran through the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston before MOCR 2 was retired in late 1992 and restored to its Apollo-era condition in 2019. The kiosk gives visitors a way to look up the actual people who sat at the consoles they’re seeing on the floor.
Visitors land on a splash that asks them to search by person or browse missions, and from there the two halves of the database stay cross-linked: every personnel record lists the missions that person worked, and every mission record surfaces the patch, date, historical context, and the people behind it.
Features
- People: alphabetical (A-Z) personnel directory. Each person’s detail page lists the missions they served on, with role and shift assignment (e.g., “Apollo 11 — Orbit Shift 1 — Evaluator, Recovery Control Room”).
- Missions: filterable grid of mission patches — Show All / Gemini / Apollo / Shuttle (STS). Each mission detail page surfaces the patch art, launch date, and historical context paragraph.
- Cross-referenced: navigate person → missions → people in either direction.
- Quick search: top-level “Find a Person” search jumps straight from the splash into the personnel list.
Role
Lead Dev — Unity build, kiosk UX, and the two-way data model that wires personnel ↔ missions.
Highlights
- Built for vertical touchscreen kiosk installation at Space Center Houston, NASA Johnson Space Center’s official visitor center.
- High-throughput museum UX — fast search, simple navigation, no accounts.
- Two-direction data model: every personnel record links its missions, every mission record links its personnel.
- Dual-mode visual treatment — bright blue mission-control aesthetic for browsing, dark archival treatment for individual mission detail pages.