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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.
Pyatyorka is a common name for the missile as the "digit 5", corresponding to the R-7 Semyorka, the digit 7. The basic version of the missile was an inertially-guided submarine-launched cruise missile to threaten the US coasts. The missile could be armed with either a 1000 kg high explosive or a 200 or 350 kt nuclear warhead.
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]
City NASA Ames Visitor Center: Ames Research Center: Moffett Field, California Goddard Visitor Center: Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, Maryland Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex: Kennedy Space Center: Merritt Island, Florida WFF Visitor Center: Wallops Flight Facility: Wallops Island, Virginia U.S. Space & Rocket Center: Marshall ...
Cernan Earth and Space Center: River Grove: Illinois: No No Yes Yes Chabot Space & Science Center: Oakland: California: No Yes Yes Yes Challenger Center for Space Science Education: Tallahassee: Florida: No No Yes Yes Chicago Children's Museum: Chicago: Illinois: No No No No Children's Creativity Museum: San Francisco: California: No No Yes Yes ...
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology.
The Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum (formerly the Air Force Space and Missile Museum) is located at Launch Complex 26 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.It includes artifacts from the early American space program and includes an outdoor area displaying rockets, missiles, and space-related equipment chronicling the space and missile history of the US Air Force, the US Space Force ...
The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.