Johnson Space Center, Texas USA
From the early Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's International Space Station and Space Shuttle Programs, JSC continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration. JSC was established in 1961 as the Manned Spacecraft Center. The Center was renamed in 1973 in honor of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson.
JSC serves as the lead NASA center for the International Space Station -- a
U.S. led collaborative effort of 16 nations, and the largest, most powerful, complex human facility to ever operate in space. Orbiting 240 miles above the Earth, this working laboratory will serve as a stepping-stone to other planets -- teaching us the essentials of long-term living in space.
The Center's famed Mission Control Center, or MCC, has been the operational hub of every American human space mission since Gemini IV. The MCC manages all activity onboard the space station and directs all space shuttle missions, including station assembly flights and Hubble Space Telescope servicing. The Apollo Mission Control room at JSC is a registered historical landmark.
JSC is also home to the NASA astronaut corps, and is responsible for training space explorers from the United States and our space station partner nations. As such, it is the principal training site for both space shuttle crews and International Space Station Expedition crews.
JSC leads NASA's flight-related scientific and medical research efforts and strives to make revolutionary discoveries and advances to benefit all humankind. Technologies developed originally for space flight have already found a wide range of applications in medicine, energy, transportation, agriculture, communications and electronics.
JSC's team of professionals manages the development, testing, production and delivery of all U.S. human spacecraft, and all human spacecraft-related functions including: life support systems; power systems; crew equipment; electrical power generation and distribution; guidance, navigation and control; cooling systems; structures; flight software; robotics; and spacesuits and spacewalking equipment.
This page was last updated on 21-Sep-2003.
