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  2. Nicknames of Houston - Wikipedia

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    Johnson Space Center. Houston received its official nickname of "Space City" in 1967 because it is home to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center. [2] [3]NASA's center in Houston has its origins in the Space Task Group which directed its first crewed spaceflight program, Project Mercury.

  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. Space settlement - Wikipedia

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    A Stanford torus interior (cutaway view) Interior view of a large scale O'Neill cylinder, showing alternating land and window stripes. A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation facilities in space than a general space station or spacecraft.

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas/Houston task force/Nicknames of ...

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    Johnson Space Center. Houston received the official nickname of "Space City" in 1967 because it is home to NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. [1]NASA's center in Houston has its origins in legislation shepherded to enactment in 1958 by then-U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, who was from Texas.

  6. 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.

  7. Special Report-China builds space alliances in Africa as ...

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    The satellite facility is the centerpiece of Space City, a complex being constructed about 30 kilometers east of Cairo near a new administrative capital being built by Egyptian President Abdel ...

  8. NASA facilities - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy Space Center (KSC), located west of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, is one of the best known NASA facilities. Named the Launch Operations Center at its creation on July 1, 1962, it was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president on November 29, 1963, [ 35 ] [ 36 ] and has been the launch site for every United States human ...

  9. NASA - Wikipedia

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    Cubes in Space. NASA started an annual competition in 2014 named "Cubes in Space". [263] It is jointly organized by NASA and the global education company I Doodle Learning, with the objective of teaching school students aged 11–18 to design and build scientific experiments to be launched into space on a NASA rocket or balloon. On June 21 ...