The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), located in Houston, Texas, is NASA's primary center for human spaceflight activities. JSC is responsible for astronaut training, research, and flight control, including the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, which supports all American human spaceflights. It plays a pivotal role in programs like the International Space Station, Orion, and Artemis, partnering with international space agencies and commercial entities to advance human exploration and scientific discovery. Key activities include spacecraft design, development, testing, and mission operations.
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Virgin Galactic signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to develop a private orbital astronaut readiness program.
NASA’s Johnson Space Center released images on 2020-02-22 of astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley training for the Demo-2 mission to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The Johnson Space Center will lead the work to develop the unpressurized lunar rover.
NASA briefed plans for the ISS spacewalks on 2019-10-04 at the Johnson Space Center.
The OTIS telescope element underwent thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center before arriving in California in early 2018.
The nine NASA centers that received independent assessments from The Aerospace Corp. under the 2011 contracts include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Stennis Space Center, and NASA Langley Research Center.
Two Northrop Grumman habitation module mockups were tested at the Johnson Space Center earlier 2019.
NASA’s Human Research Program at Johnson Space Center will receive additional data from Christina Koch’s extended mission to support future missions to the Moon and Mars.
The Advancing Human Spaceflight Act directs NASA to establish an advanced spacesuit program at the Johnson Space Center.
Jeanette Epps returned to activities at Johnson Space Center after her removal, including getting recertified to fly the T-38 aircraft used by NASA for astronaut training.
An 2018-08-28 letter from several Republican members of the Texas congressional delegation requested that a future lunar lander program be based at Johnson Space Center in Texas.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on 2018-08-23.
Astrobotic will lead a public-private partnership that includes Moog Space and Defense, Moog Broad Reach, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and NASA Johnson Space Center to develop a commercial TRN and visual velocimetry sensor for lunar and planetary landers.
NASA released the revised commercial crew schedule ahead of a planned 2018-08-03 announcement at the Johnson Space Center of the astronauts that will fly the two companies’ crewed demonstration missions and the first post-certification missions by each company.
The 2018-08-03 event at Johnson Space Center will also announce the crews for the first post-certification missions by Boeing and SpaceX.
NASA will name the astronauts who will fly the crewed demonstration flights by Boeing and SpaceX during an event on 2018-08-03 at the Johnson Space Center.
Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2 (SFEM-2) is an experiment from NASA Johnson Space Center that first flew on New Shepard Mission 8 and will collect additional data on Mission 9.
Janet Kavandi served in management positions at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, including director of flight crew operations responsible for the astronaut corps, before moving to Glenn.
The James Webb Space Telescope optical telescope assembly, including its segmented mirror and suite of instruments, completed thermal vacuum testing at Johnson Space Center.
The 2018-04-29 New Shepard flight carried a payload from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to monitor environmental conditions in the capsule.