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For more than half a century, NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston has led our nation and the world on a continuing adventure of human exploration, discovery and achievement. The center has played a vital role in powering our country into the 21st century through technological innovations and scientific discoveries.
Space Center Houston, NASA Johnson Space Center’s Visitor Center and Houston’s only Smithsonian Affiliate museum, inspires wonder in space exploration.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA 's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.
NASA and the Texas A&M University System sign an agreement for a 240-acre Exploration Park on underutilized land at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left: Texas State Rep. Greg Bonnen, NASA Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, and Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III.
The Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) was established in 1961 as the lead center for NASA's human spaceflight programs. MSC became home to the iconic Mission Control Center, where flight controllers have managed every crewed flight since Gemini IV in 1965.
Share this article. HOUSTON, Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Director Vanessa Wyche of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will join Texas A&M University leaders and guests Friday, Nov. 15, to ...
Space Center Houston, the Official Visitor Center of NASA Johnson Space Center, is Houston’s No. 1 attraction for international visitors and the first Smithsonian Affiliate in the greater Houston area.
In 1973, the Center was renamed in honor of the late President and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson. From the early Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, the Center continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration.
The Johnson Center’s $1.5 billion complex occupies 1,620 acres southeast of downtown Houston, in the Clear Lake area. JSC is the home of mission control and astronaut training. In its early days, the center led the Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab projects.
Since 1965, mission control has been the helm of America’s human spaceflight. NASA’s Christopher C. Kraft Mission Control Center (MCC) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston is the primary facility where flight controllers command and control human spacecraft missions.