The Lyndon Johnson Space Center (JSC ) is a NASA center for the development of manned spacecraft , astronaut training and the preparation of manned space flights, a space flight control and control center.
The center is a complex of 100 buildings on an area of 656 hectares southeast of Houston [1] . The center is trained by both US astronauts and astronauts of partner countries. The center was originally called the Manned Spacecraft Center and was built in 1963 on land transferred by Humble Oil and Refining Company to Rice University, provided that it acts as a temporary intermediary and offers these lands to NASA [ 2] , which the university did in 1960.
February 19, 1973 the center was renamed in honor of the former president of the United States, a native of Texas Lyndon Johnson [3] .
Notes
- ↑ NASA. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . Archived on April 10, 2012.
- ↑ Rice Fact and Fiction: What's Your Rice Historical IQ? (eng.) . Rice University. Date of treatment April 11, 2011. Archived April 10, 2012.
- ↑ Houston Space Center Is Named for Johnson, New York Time (February 20, 1973), p. 19.
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- Space Center Site
- The structure of the center (1966)