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	NASA - Johnson Space Center
		JSC strives to capture and channel students' interest in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
		JSC also sponsors conferences and activities with students around the world.
		Johnson Space Center hosted the grand opening of a restored Houston landmark and national treasure, the immense Saturn V rocket, on July 20, 38 years to the day after humans first walked on the moon.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/johnson/home/index.html (282 words)

	Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		JSC was originally established as "Manned Spacecraft Center" in 1961 and subsequently renamed the "Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center" in 1973, honoring LBJ, following his passing that year.
		The land occupied by the space center was donated to NASA by Rice University.
		JSC is the home office for U.S. astronauts and is also the site of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined and where returned samples of lunar soil and rock are stored.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnson_Space_Center (362 words)

	Johnson Space Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnson Space Center was established in September 1961 as NASA's primary center for design, development and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for manned flight; selection and training of astronauts; planning and conducting manned missions; and extensive participation in the medical, engineering and scientific experiments carried aboard space flights.
		Johnson also has a major responsibility for the development of the space station, a permanently manned, Earth-orbiting facility to be constructed in space and operable within the decade.
		Johnson also is responsible for direction of operations at the White Sands Test Facility (WSTF), located on the western edge of the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range at Las Cruces, N.M. WSTF supports the Space Shuttle propulsion system, power system and materials testing.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /mirrors/msfc/team/jsc.html (349 words)

	Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
		Johnson's Mission Control Center is where all human space flights are monitored, located at the center of the complex.
		The center is responsible for the interfaces between the ISS and the Space Shuttle and flight operations of both, and maintains excellence in the fields of space systems, engineering, life sciences, and lunar and planetary geosciences.
		In the nation's quest to master space, Johnson Space Center is positioned to seek new answers to new questions in the arena of living and working in the space environment.
	www.sti.nasa.gov /tto/spinoff1997/ar5.html (1203 words)

	NASA Tech Transfer Resources - Johnson Space Center
		As the center for manned spaceflight control, Johnson performs life science research focused on maintaining the human body as well as plant life in space, which has led to an array of spin-offs from heart pumps to bioreactors.
		Johnson does this categorization in cooperation with its external partners and the technologies with the highest commercial potential are studied for patentability or publication in NASA Tech Briefs.
		JSC's external partners include IC2, technology incubator at the University of Texas in Austin; the Mid-Continent Technology Transfer Center at Texas A & M University in College Station, TX; and the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina.
	www.nasatech.com /resrep/JSC.html (1075 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
		The origins of the center are to be found in the national commitment to a broad program of space exploration, including manned space flight, which the United States made in response to the Soviet Union's successful space launches, begun in 1957.
		Winged space shuttles, like airplanes, could reenter from space and land on runways instead of hitting the ocean and could serve not only as launch vehicles, but as science laboratories, earth-observation outposts, and repair and retrieval stations for satellites.
		Johnson Space Center became the host center for the new Space Station Program Office, and Boeing Defense and Space Group was selected as the single prime contractor.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/sql1.html (3296 words)

	Aerial and Satellite Views of the Houston/Clear Lake Area
		The NASA domestic satellite Earth Station complex at JSC is in the center of this aerial photograph taken from a low-flying NASA aircraft in 1978.
		The photograph is centered at approximately 29.3 degrees north and 94.8 degrees west.
		The heavily urbanized Galveston Island is in contrast to the lightly populated Bolivar Peninsula.
	www.photohome.com /clearlake/houston-photos.html (1772 words)

	Space Center Houston: There's Always Something New (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Space Center Houston is the only place on Earth that gives guests an out-of-this-world journey through human adventures into space.
		At Space Center Houston, guests can understand the past, experience the present, and be a part of the future of the space Program.
		Space Center Houston is the Official Visitors Center of NASA's Johnson Space Center, which is the home of astronaut training and Mission Control.
	www.spacecenter.org /about.html (188 words)

	Directory - Science: Technology: Space: NASA: Centers: Johnson Space Center
		Johnson Space Center · Established in September 1961 as NASA's primary center for: design, development and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human flight; selection and training of astronauts; planning and conducting human space flight missions; and extensive participation in the medical, engineering scientific experiments carried aboard apace flights.
		JSC Astrobiology Institute for the Study of Biomarkers · Through research on ancient rocks, modern hot springs, and Mars meteorites, the Institute is dedicated to identifying specific properties of a rock, soil, or other samples which indicate that biological activity is occurring or has occurred.
		Space and Life Sciences Directorate · The Directorate plays an enabling role in attaining NASA's goal of expanding human activities beyond low Earth orbit.We use highly skilled personnel, utilize unique facilities, conduct space fight experiments, contribute new techniques, and combine our experience to advance the expansion of human activities in space.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=337158 (396 words)

	Johnson Space Center
		Established as the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1961, the Center was renamed in honor of the late president in 1973.
		Johnson is the leading force of the ISS, which has grown from a 70-ton, efficiency apartment-sized foothold in orbit to a space laboratory of boundless capability.
		Johnson's unvarying force of discovery also led to the development of a bioreactor to study the impact of microgravity on cellular and tissue growth on Earth and in space.
	www.sti.nasa.gov /tto/spinoff2002/johnson.html (1219 words)

	NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
		The Johnson Space Center Web site has moved.
		We appreciate your interest in NASA and the Johnson Space Center.
		Click here to go to the new site.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov (36 words)

	The Space Shuttle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Space Shuttle is a reusable rocket-launched vehicle designed to transport people and cargo between Earth and orbiting spacecraft, and then to return to the Earth's surface by gliding down and landing on a runway.
		The Shuttle was selected in the early 1970s as the principal space launcher and carrier vehicle to be developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		An assembled Space Shuttle is approximately 184 feet (56 meters) long, 76 feet (23 meters) high to the tip of the orbiter’s vertical tail, and 78 feet (24 meters) wide, measuring across the orbiter’s wingtips.
	kosmoi.com /Space/Shuttle (1030 words)

	NASA - Johnson Space Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the main NASA center for the design, development and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human space flight.
		The center plays the lead role in selection and training of astronauts and the planning and conduction of human space missions in addition to extensive participation in medical engineering and scientific space flight experiments.
		JSC utilizes a specially modified and outfitted KC-135A turbojet transport to produce 20- to 25-second periods of weightlessness training and testing during parabolic flight profiles.
	www.federallabs.org /servlet/FLCLPRODisplayServlet?wLPROID=1169 (1380 words)

	Texas: Houston and The Johnson Space Center.
		School aged children with an interest in space will find some of the places interesting and there is an optional stop at the end of the tour to disembark and look at a collection of rockets in a park like setting.
		Adjacent to the Space Center Plaza is an IMAX Theater as well as The Starship Gallery.
		Armand Bayou Nature Center is at the heart of a 2,500-acre preserve that protects the diverse ecosystem of Texas.
	familytravelfiles.com /ezine/articles/125.asp (1113 words)

	Johnson Space Center
		The Space Center, a non-profit organization, recently unveiled a total make-over that celebrates the accomplishments of NASA and the U.S. manned space program with dynamic breath-taking productions and exhibits that put visitors right in the middle of the action.
		An infusion of new funding last year gave Celina Ducceschi, exhibits director of the Space Center, the means to junk some of the old, tired exhibits that had been in place since the center’s opening 10 years earlier and create an entire new look and feel.
		Space Center Houston is approximately 25 miles south of downtown Houston at 1601 NASA Road 1, Houston, Texas 77058.
	www.bagend.com /johnsonspace.htm (1189 words)

	NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)
		Founded in 1961 and located in Houston, Texas, it houses the Mission Control for Space Shuttle flights and a separate control center for the International Space Station.
		JSC also conducts major programs related to manned spaceflight, space medicine, and aviation.
		Originally, known as the Manned Spacecraft Center, it was renamed the (Lyndon B.) Johnson Space Center, on Feb. 17, 1973, after the President who recommended a manned lunar landing in response to early Soviet space successes.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/J/JSC.html (171 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Feb. 1, 2003: Johnson Space Center 'family' stunned, united
		By mid-morning the streets leading into Johnson Space Center were filled with somber employees called into work, beginning the long process of collecting data and debris, analyzing it and trying to puzzle together the cause of Columbia's disintegration.
		Workers arriving at the Space Center repeatedly used words like "shocked" and "stunned." Just last week NASA employees had held a memorial service for the three Apollo 1 astronauts who died in a launch-pad fire during tests on Jan. 27, 1967.
		Space Center Houston, the tourist center next to Johnson Space Center, remained open, although a tram that runs into the professional areas was shut down.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1761373 (996 words)

	Nanotechnology Website
		NASA and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) have made a commitment to pursue and drive breakthrough technologies to expand human exploration of space.
		Toward this goal, JSC is focusing on the development of nanotechnology based on single-wall carbon nanotubes.
		JSC's distinctive effort is the study of nanotube growth using the PLV facility.
	mmptdpublic.jsc.nasa.gov /jscnano (2556 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston TX
		JSC was established in September 1961 as NASA's primary center for:
		The Johnson Space Center ERC serves educators in an eight-state region (Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota).
		Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is adjacent to Clear Lake at 2101 NASA Road 1, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston via Interstate 45.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/newones/77058-36.htm (1206 words)

	Three Space Sciences encyclopedia articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The history of building and operating space stations in Earth orbit has had two strands, which have only recently come together in the International Space Station.
		A total of three prototype space station modules docked with Salyut 6 and Salyut 7, paving the way for the third-generation Mir station (1986-2001).
		NASA added MMU to the Space Shuttle program in 1974 to allow an astronaut to fly under the Shuttle orbiter before Earth atmosphere reentry to inspect its crucial heatshield tiles for damage.
	members.aol.com /dsfportree/spacestation.htm (2715 words)

	AllRefer.com - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Space Exploration) - Encyclopedia
		National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), and rocketry.
		The best-known NASA facilities are the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston, Tex., where flights are coordinated, and the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where all space shuttle launches take place.
		Other facilities include the Dryden, Goddard, and Stennis centers and NASA headquarters, in Washington, D.C. Despite some highly publicized failures, NASA has in many cases successfully completed its missions within their projected budgets; the total cost of the Apollo project, for example, wound up very close to the original $20-billion estimate.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NatlAero.html (443 words)

	NASA Quest > Space Team Online - JSC's Training facility (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnson Space Center is the center for manned spaceflight and headquarters for the International Space Station Program.
		As home of America's astronauts, JSC is responsible for training the astronauts and flight control teams that support manned missions.
		James Peters is responsible for ensuring all the hardware and equipment works and fits together properly, before being launched into space on the shuttle and assembled on the International Space Station (ISS).
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/events/iss (520 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Johnson Space Center at Epinions.com
		At Space Center Houston, I can't help but walk away feeling like I paid a prime rib price and was given a basket of hay.
		Space Center Houston is firmly in the idiots camp.
		The center tour itself should be free and accessible to all, after all, this is a government facility paid for with public funds.
	www.epinions.com /content_96467717764 (1711 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Technology: Space: NASA: Centers: Johnson Space Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnson Space Center - Established in September 1961 as NASA's primary center for: design, development and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human flight; selection and training of astronauts; planning and conducting human space flight missions; and extensive participation in the medical, engineering scientific experiments carried aboard apace flights.
		JSC Astrobiology Institute for the Study of Biomarkers - Through research on ancient rocks, modern hot springs, and Mars meteorites, the Institute is dedicated to identifying specific properties of a rock, soil, or other samples which indicate that biological activity is occurring or has occurred.
		Space and Life Sciences Directorate - The Directorate plays an enabling role in attaining NASA's goal of expanding human activities beyond low Earth orbit.We use highly skilled personnel, utilize unique facilities, conduct space fight experiments, contribute new techniques, and combine our experience to advance the expansion of human activities in space.
	dmoz.org /Science/Technology/Space/NASA/Centers/Johnson_Space_Center (458 words)

	SPACE.com -- Genesis Samples Arrive at NASA's Johnson Space Center
		HOUSTON (AP) -- Thousands of samples from the Genesis space capsule have arrived at the Johnson Space Center, where the project's curator must assemble a giant jigsaw puzzle that could hold clues to the origins of the solar system.
		The containers are stored in a locked room at the space center until scientists can figure out how to rid them of contaminants.
		Astrosociology is the study of astrosocial phenomena (social/cultural patterns related to space), a multidisciplinary field open to all scientists and engineers interested in "space and society" issues.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/genesis_update_041007.html (776 words)

	Johnson Space Center Visit
		Johnson Center, and I think that's a very good thing and I appreciatethat.
		I have every confidence that those of you whowork here at Johnson Space Center will always carry that convictionnot only in your minds, but in your hearts.
		Thestory of our space program is the story of barriers broken and newworlds uncovered.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19980414-7321.html (1412 words)

	Johnson Space Center Tour
		During the recent NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to continue construction on the International Space Station, Bob Vila visited the facilities at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to get a first hand look at how the residents of the International Space Station will live and work in their new home in outer space.
		In addition to providing a passageway between sections of the space station, visiting space shuttles can dock to it and move back and forth between the shuttle and space station.
		A highlight of the tour was a call to the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which was docked to the International Space Station during Mission STS-97.
	www.bobvila.com /ArticleLibrary/Subject/Innovative_Technology/Miscellaneous/NASA.html (727 words)

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