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2. Space Center Houston - Wikipedia

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   Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.

3. Johnson Space Center - Wikipedia

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   Robert R. Gilruth, leader of the Space Task Group, became NASA's first director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1961. Johnson Space Center has its origins in NASA's Space Task Group (STG). Starting on November 5, 1958, Langley Research Center engineers under Robert R. Gilruth directed Project Mercury and follow-on crewed space programs.

4. List of NASA visitor centers - Wikipedia

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   Armstrong Flight Research Center: Armstrong Flight Research Center: Edwards Air Force Base, California Great Lakes Science Center: Glenn Research Center: Cleveland, Ohio Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (FFRDC) Pasadena, California Space Center Houston: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center: Houston, Texas John C. Stennis Space ...

5. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center - Wikipedia

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   White Flight Control Room prior to STS-114 in 2005 Exterior of the Mission Control building Emblem for NASA's Flight Operations Directorate (FOD). NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that ...

6. NASA facilities - Wikipedia

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   Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA’s center for human spaceflight training, research and flight control. Created as the Manned Spacecraft Center on November 1, 1961, the facility consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed in 1962–1963 on 1,620 acres (660 ha) of land donated by Rice University in Houston, Texas. [ 32 ]

7. Space Shuttle Independence - Wikipedia

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   Tugboats take Explorer into Clear Lake from Galveston Bay Independence on display at Space Center Houston. Because Kennedy Space Center was to receive the retired Atlantis, Space Shuttle Explorer was removed from the KSC Visitor Center on December 11, 2011, and relocated to the Vehicle Assembly Building's turn basin dock adjacent to the Launch Complex 39 Press Site. [6]