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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973.
It consists of a complex of one hundred buildings constructed on 1,620 acres in the Clear Lake Area of Houston. The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights.
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| associatedWith | Aaron, John, 1942- |
| associatedWith | Briscoe, Allen Lee, 1945- |
| associatedWith | Charlesworth, Clifford E., 1931- |
| associatedWith | Fendell, Ed, 1932- |
| associatedWith | Gordon, William E., 1918- |
| associatedWith | Kirkland, Zach, 1938- |
| associatedWith | Kraft, Christopher C. |
| isSuccessorOf | Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.) |
| associatedWith | McCaine, Jack, 1923- |
| associatedWith | Nichols, Bruce. |
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