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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 ...
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 ]
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]
NASA currently has a group of flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the International Space Station (ISS). The Space Shuttle flight control team (as well as those for the earlier Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab programs) were also based there. Console manning for short-duration and extended operations differed in operational ...
NASA T-38s in the hangar at Ellington Field Test pilot Stuart Present ejects safely from crashing LLTV, 29 January 1971. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Ellington Field was utilized for pilot and navigator training for the active Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, and Naval Air Reserve , Marine Air Reserve , and foreign students.
Space Environment Simulation Lab at NASA CRGIS; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. TX-109-B, "NASA Johnson Space Center, Building No. 32, Space Environment Simulation Laboratory, Chambers A & B, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, TX", 28 photos, 7 measured drawings, 46 data pages, 4 photo caption pages
The primary mission of WSTF is to support NASA's Space Station program, and previously the Space Shuttle. As the official Johnson Space Center (JSC) Propulsion Systems Development Facility, WSTF participates in propulsion systems testing, with test expertise in hypergolic and mono-propellant handling and training. During the orbiter's life WSTF ...
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.