The clock was designed by local NASA engineers and built by local NASA technicians in 1969, and first used at the Apollo 12 launch. But now the digital countdown timer, which ticked off NASA’s ...

The countdown clock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center press site in Florida is seen ticking down to a space shuttle launch in 2011. The Apollo-era digital clock will soon be retired and replaced.

NASA has a new state-of-the-art space capsule on the launch pad and a new high-tech countdown clock to go with it. The multimedia display was lit up Tuesday and counting down the hours, minutes ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CBSMiami/AP) — NASA has some new gadgets including a state-of-the-art space capsule on the launch pad and a countdown clock. The multimedia display was lit up Tuesday and ...

Disassembly. (NASA) The old clock in action. (NASA) As noted by NASA in a release:. The former countdown clock earned its place in space lore as an icon familiar to everyone who watched an Apollo ...

SpaceX had reset the countdown clock for its next human spaceflight, but a NASA decision has forced another delay of the ...

NASA's new countdown clock for space missions is a lot like a football stadium display and way more advanced than the old analog one it's replacing. Amanda Kooser.

After almost half a century of service, NASA is replacing its historic launch countdown clock with a high-tech LED version that makes its public debut on Thursday during the launch of the Orion ...

NASA says it plans to replace the digital countdown timer that's featured prominently in broadcasts and images of Kennedy Space Center launches ever since the second moon landing mission 45 years ago.

At 10:23 a.m. EDT (1423 GMT) today (Aug. 27), the countdown clock began ticking down to the planned launch of NASA's Artemis 1 mission, an ambitious first flight to the moon by the agency's most ...

Countdown clocks began ticking Saturday for the maiden launch of NASA new Space Launch System rocket Monday on a long-awaited mission to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule around the moon and ...

The countdown is now underway for the removal and replacement of the historic launch countdown clock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The large digital countdown clock, which has stood ...