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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Vanessa Wyche, Director of the Johnson Space Center, Jasmin Moghbeli, and Cheryl McNair will participate in the NASA Johnson Day of Remembrance commemoration.
Following the acoustic campaign, the Blue Moon MK1 will proceed to thermal vacuum chamber testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Experts at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Kennedy Space Center in Florida support the Mars to Table Challenge.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is at the Johnson Space Center.
NASA is coordinating activities at Johnson Space Center in preparation for the Artemis II launch.
Project Athena proposes consolidating mission control operations at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Starting in November 2024, Suwa began pre-assignment training at NASA's Johnson Space Center, including extravehicular activities and robotic arm operations.
Suwa will transition to assignment training based in NASA's Johnson Space Center moving forward.
Makoto Suwa received official astronaut certification in October 2024 and has been training at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The NASA–Momentus mission is funded and managed by NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology program and the Engineering Directorate at Johnson Space Center.
Project Athena proposes consolidating mission control operations at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Houston’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) managed all 135 space shuttle missions from 1981 to 2011.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Gibbons and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman participated in an Optimized Trajectory Correction burn simulation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Researchers from NASA's Johnson Space Center took a quadruped robot called LASSIE-M to White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
The research collaboration involves scientists from the University of Maryland, NASA Goddard, Johnson Space Center, University of Gottingen, Chungbuk National University, and NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
NASA Glenn Research Center and NASA Johnson Space Center plan to test and verify the Bi-Directional 6 kW Dust-Tolerant Resonant Connectors using lunar and Martian regolith simulants in 2026.
Intuitive Machines and Texas A&M have signed a lease agreement for Intuitive Machines to have a dedicated bay in the Space Institute facility near NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Isaacman suggested that NASA create a centralized mission control for government and private missions at the Johnson Space Center.
The One Big, Beautiful Bill aims to relocate Discovery to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The 24th astronaut class of NASA began training at Johnson Space Center in mid-September.