List of buildings in the Johnson Space Center

The buildings in the Johnson Space Center
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for human spaceflight training, research and flight control. The center consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on 1,620 acres in Houston, Texas, USA...

house facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's human spaceflight

Human spaceflight

Human spaceflight is spaceflight with humans on the spacecraft. When a spacecraft is manned, it can be piloted directly, as opposed to machine or robotic space probes and remotely-controlled satellites....

activities. The center consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on 1620 acre (656 ha) located in southeast Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

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The buildings at Johnson Space Center are all numbered and not named. A partial listing of building numbers and what is contained in them follows:

Building	Description
1	Headquarters of JSC, including the offices of senior management and the JSC director
2	Public Affairs Office, video production, and audio processing facilities. The JSC Visitors Center was a tenant until 1993.
3	First cafeteria and employee store
4	Offices for human spaceflight activities, including astronauts, flight controllers, Instructors, and flight director Flight director The term flight director can refer to any one of the following:* the flight controller of a space flight* the flight director of an aviation navigation system... s
5	Shuttle Mission Simulator Shuttle Mission Simulator The Shuttle Mission Simulator consisted of two simulators in Building 5 and one simulator in Building 35 of Johnson Space Center. The fixed-base simulators included high-fidelity mockups of the flight deck of a Space Shuttle, as well as a low-fidelity mockup of the middeck. The motion-base... (SMS), both fixed-base and motion-based
7	Vacuum chambers and space suit testing facilities, including the Environmental Test Article (ETA) Shuttle airlock vacuum chamber and the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) vacuum chamber.
8	Health Clinic and historical photo and video archives
9	Space Vehicle Mockup Facility Space Vehicle Mockup Facility The Space Vehicle Mockup Facility is located inside Building 9 of Johnson Space Center in Houston. It includes several Space Shuttle mockups, as well as mockups of every major pressurized module on the International Space Station... (SVMF), including full-scale International Space Station International Space Station The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes... module mockups and several Space Shuttle Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle was a manned orbital rocket and spacecraft system operated by NASA on 135 missions from 1981 to 2011. The system combined rocket launch, orbital spacecraft, and re-entry spaceplane with modular add-ons... cabin and payload bay mockups
10	Large scale fabrication facility, the high bay, and machine shops
11	Second cafeteria and employee store
12	JSC's Office of Education, which specializes in promoting space science, technology, engineering and mathematics
15	Human and Environmental Factors offices
16 and 16A	Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory The Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory was a facility at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.It was the only facility in the Space Shuttle Program where actual orbiter hardware and flight software can be integrated and tested in a simulated flight environment... (SAIL), where software and hardware changes are tested to insure they function well with the whole vehicle in a simulated flight environment. Also houses the Shuttle Engineering Simulator (SES).
17	Space Food Systems Laboratory. Offices for Space Exploration.
29	Crew Exploration Vehicle Crew Exploration Vehicle The Crew Exploration Vehicle was the conceptual component of the U.S. NASA Vision for Space Exploration that later became known as the Orion spacecraft... (CEV) Avionics Integration Laboratory; (CAIL) will be used to perform integrated avionics and flight software requirements verification.
30	Mission Control Center (MCC) including the Flight Control Rooms (FCRs) to support the Space Shuttle and ISS
31	Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science
32	Space Environment Simulation Laboratory Space Environment Simulation Laboratory The Space Environment Simulation Laboratory in Building 32 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center was used for the testing of Apollo Program equipment in a space environment. It simulated the vacuum and thermal environments that would be encountered by spacecraft in use. The laboratory continues... Two very large thermal-vacuum chambers for testing flight hardware, designated as a National Historic Landmark National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...
33	Space Environment Simulation Test Facility with several small thermal-vacuum chambers for testing flight hardware
37	Life Sciences Laboratory; formerly the Lunar Receiving Laboratory Lunar Receiving Laboratory The Lunar Receiving Laboratory was a facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center that was constructed to quarantine astronauts and material brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program to mitigate the risk of back-contamination...
44	Communications and Tracking Center
110	Security headquarters just outside the NASA gates by the employee entrance. Security issues badges for employees, contractors, and visitors.

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