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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Cosmonauts are scheduled to train at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and at SpaceX’s headquarters in California under the planned crew swap agreement.
Vanessa Wyche, director of Johnson Space Center, supports Howard Hu leading the Orion team and expects he will guide efforts to send the spacecraft and astronauts to the Moon.
Spaceport Houston at Ellington Airport near NASA’s Johnson Space Center has been licensed since 2015 but had not hosted a launch as of early 2022.
RS-51 from NASA’s Johnson Space Center was intended to test a fast and cost-effective way to build cubesats and demonstrate some in-space inspection technologies.
RS-51 from NASA’s Johnson Space Center will test a fast and cost-effective way to build cubesats and demonstrate some in-space inspection technologies.
RS-51, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, will test a fast and cost-effective way to build cubesats and demonstrate some in-space inspection technologies.
Roscosmos and its head Dmitry Rogozin identified an initial U.S. refusal to issue a visa to cosmonaut Nikolai Chub for training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on 2022-01-22.
The United States granted Nikolai Chub a visa for training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on 2022-01-26.
DART received support from NASA centers including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, and Langley Research Center.
The Webb telescope was shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2017 for cryogenic testing in the Chamber A test facility.
Vanessa Wyche, who has been deputy director of Johnson Space Center since August 2018, will serve as acting director of the center.
Mark Geyer published a three-minute video on 2021-05-03 disclosing his decision to leave the position of director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Vanessa Wyche joined NASA in 1989 and has held positions that included director of Johnson Space Center’s exploration integration and science directorate and flight manager for several shuttle missions.
NASA and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre entered a reimbursable Space Act Agreement in September 2020 to allow the two new UAE astronauts to train as part of NASA’s new astronaut class and to enable Hazzaa AlMansoori and Sultan AlNeyadi to undergo separate training at the Johnson Space Center.
Astrobotic’s Griffin Lander Analog Model (GLAM) arrived at NASA Johnson Space Center after being transported more than 1,483 km early 2021-03.
Blue Origin delivered a full-sized mockup of its lander to NASA’s Johnson Space Center for testing.
Blue Origin’s National Team installed a full-sized engineering mockup of its lunar lander in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center on 2020-08-20.
The Blue Origin-led HLS National Team delivered a full-scale engineering mockup of a crew lander vehicle to NASA Johnson Space Center’s Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Building 9) on 2020-08-20.
The National Team will collaborate with NASA Johnson Space Center’s Astronaut Office to perform engineering and crew operations tests with astronauts.
Both Behnken and Cassidy received spacewalk training before their Demo-2 launches, including refresher training for Behnken in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center weeks before the launch.