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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 Center: John C. Stennis Space Center: Hancock County, Mississippi Virginia Air and Space Center: Langley ...
Langley Research Center (LaRC), founded in 1917, is the oldest of NASA's field centers, located in Hampton, Virginia.LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Apollo lunar lander was flight-tested at the facility and a number of high-profile space missions have been planned and designed on-site.
NASA found a strong advocate in President Ronald Reagan, who declared in a 1984 speech: America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain.
Note that some European countries operate spaceports in Africa, South America, or other equatorial regions. These spaceports are listed in this article according to their geographical location. Some Russian-controlled launch sites are listed as being in Asia. Note that some Russian cosmodromes appear in this section, some in the section Asia. [40]
Below is a list of space facilities by country. Algeria. Algerian Space Agency ... Mabuhaysat Zamboanga Space Center [1] Pakistan. Sonmiani Spaceport; Satellite ...
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Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive.From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.