Right now i'm on console at Johnson Space Center in Houston (as in "Houston, we have a problem"). And speaking of Apollo, I'm in the same building as the original Apollo control room! Back then, each person only had 1 monitor and they communicated between rooms using pneumatic tubes (like at the bank). Here's a picture of one console in the Apollo era control room:
Another very famous NASA quote is by Gene Kranz, Flight Director of the Apollo 13 mission was said here: "Failure is not an Option". Here's where he sat:
And here's the red phone....ooooooooh red.
Nowadays we have email, a jillion voice loops, live video feed from the shuttle and like 10 monitors to look at. here's what my station looks like
On the TVs is images of our first EVA day. All the rest are our displays and data plots. FUN!
