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Headquarters of JSC, including the offices of senior management and the JSC director 1963 [2] 2 Public Affairs Office, Media briefing room, video production, and audio processing facilities (The JSC Visitors Center was a tenant until the opening of Space Center Houston [3] in October 1992.) 1963 [2] 3 Main cafeteria and JSC Exchange Store 1963 ...
The Overset Grid-Flow software was developed at Johnson Space Center in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center. The software simulates fluid flow around solid bodies using computational fluid dynamics. [citation needed] The Texas Space Commission was established by Texas governor Greg Abbott on March 26, 2024 at Johnson Space Center. [41]
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 ]
NASA Ames Exploration Center. The NASA Ames Visitor Center is a visitor center at the entrance of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The center has the following exhibits: [1] The Mercury-Redstone 1A capsule, launched in 1960 in a suborbital flight, which achieved an altitude of 130.7 miles.
The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility (LSLF) is a repository and laboratory facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, opened in 1979 to house geologic samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo program missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. The facility preserves most of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of ...
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 ...
On April 12, 2011, the California Science Center received Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA. [23] [24] [25] It arrived at the Science Center on October 14, 2016, after it made its epic journey through the streets of Los Angeles. [26] Before its arrival, a building was constructed to temporary house the Space Shuttle.
Two Getaway Special (GAS) canisters, used on STS-91. The program was conceived by NASA's Shuttle program manager John Yardley, and announced in the fall of 1976.The "Getaway Special" nickname originated from a special vacation fare for flights between Los Angeles and Honolulu being advertised by Trans World Airlines at the time around the program's conception.