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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NASA Johnson Space Center's Associate Director for Strategy is Douglas Terrier.
The June 2023 joint statement commits NASA to provide advanced training to Indian astronauts at the Johnson Space Center and directs the agencies to develop a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation by the end of 2023.
NASA did not provide public answers about whether any Indian astronauts have started training at the Johnson Space Center or whether the strategic framework had been completed.
Mark Kirasich has also received a Johnson Space Center Director’s Commendation.
The CHAPEA project involves spending a year in a simulated Mars habitat at the Johnson Space Center.
Stuart George of NASA’s Johnson Space Center led the LETS instrument effort and the LETS instrument operated successfully throughout the flight.
NASA and the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) signed an agreement on Thursday, 2024-02-29 to lease underutilized land in the 240-acre Exploration Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA and the Texas A&M University System agreed on 2024-02-15 to lease underutilized land in Exploration Park at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The REMIS-2 contract will support International Space Station Program work based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The VIPER rover hardware is designed and built by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The June 2023 summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden included a commitment to develop a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation to be completed by the end of 2023 and to train Indian astronauts at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
A U.S. State Department fact sheet dated 2023-11-09 reiterated the goal of a joint mission to the ISS in 2024 and training of Indian astronauts at Johnson Space Center.
ICON delivered the simulated Mars surface 3D-printed habitat Mars Dune Alpha, designed in collaboration with BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
NASA’s Johnson Space Center Building 31 is a historic facility where Apollo missions were tested.
The House report directs NASA to place the new Mars Sample Return receiving facility within 48.3 km (50 km) of the current curator for all NASA-held extraterrestrial samples at the Johnson Space Center.
Work under the contract will be performed in the Houston area with NASA Johnson Space Center’s Engineering Directorate, primarily the Software, Robotics, and Simulation Division.
CACI International has been awarded a four-year single-award, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity expertise contract worth up to $150,000,000 to support spaceflight systems, simulation, and software for NASA Johnson Space Center.
NASA unveiled samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during an 2023-10-11 event at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The Johnson Space Center astromaterials curation facility received the OSIRIS-REx sample canister a day after it landed in the Utah desert on 2023-09-24.