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The Houston ARTCC is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States. Houston Center is the 8th busiest ARTCC in the United States. In 2024, Houston Center handled 2,338,712 aircraft. [2] The center controls airspace in southern Texas, Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and areas in the Gulf of Mexico. [3]
The $80 million construction project includes a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) Battle Command Training Center, which simulates war conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan., [5] a second Armed Forces Reserve Center with an assembly hall and offices, a Welcome Center, which will handle retention, recruitment and military identification services.
The advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s enabled users of modern flight simulators to fly together using multiplayer functionality. In 1997, SquawkBox [25] was created by Jason Grooms as an add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 95, enhancing the built-in multiplayer features to allow large numbers of players to connect to the game.
In 1993, the Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Houston leased 9,707 square feet (901.8 m 2) in the First Interstate Plaza. [8] In 1995 Koll Real Estate lost the management contract for the First Interstate Plaza. [9] In 1996, NGC Corp. (now Dynegy) leased 260,000 square feet (24,000 m 2) in the First Interstate
In the late 1980s NASA began to consider replacing its previous neutral-buoyancy training facility, the Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF). The WETF, located at Johnson Space Center, had been successfully used to train astronauts for numerous missions, but its pool was too small to hold useful mock-ups of space station components of the sorts intended for the mooted Space Station ...
The USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center at Karolyi Ranch or simply Karolyi Ranch in unincorporated Walker County, Texas, southeast of Huntsville, was a gymnastics camp facility which was the site of the main training center for the United States women's national gymnastics team, located 70 miles (110 km) north of Houston within the Sam Houston National Forest.
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 [2] 4-N Mission Operations support offices including Flight Director's Office 1963 [2] 4-S
The visitor center has been the adjacent Space Center Houston since 1994; JSC Building 2 previously housed the visitor center. [citation needed] The Johnson Space Center Heliport (FAA LID: 72TX) is located on the campus. [32]