Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Also known as Johnson Space Center, JSC, Manned Spacecraft Center, MSC

NASA field center in Houston, Texas, United States

Key facts

Formed: November 1, 1961 ; 64 years ago ( 1961-11-01 )
Preceding agency: Space Task Group
Jurisdiction: Federal government of the United States
Employees: 12,541 civil servants and contractors (2024)
Annual budget: US$5.43 billion (2024)
Agency executive: Vanessa E. Wyche , director
Parent agency: NASA
Child agency: White Sands Test Facility
Website: nasa .gov /johnson

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official website: www.nasa.gov/johnson

Article

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973.

JSC consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on 1,620 acres (660 ha) in Clear Lake. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It also houses the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, which has provided the flight control function for every NASA human spaceflight since Gemini 4 (including Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, Space Shuttle and Artemis). It is popularly known by its radio call signs "Mission Control" and "Houston".