The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center.

The Skylab project, managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, was seen by the Manned Spacecraft Center ( later Johnson Space Center ) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight.

After showing the positive results to the Johnson Space Center, the NASA administration still held several reservations about the plan.

Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA, for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ( now called Johnson Space Center ) in 1962.

* NASA Johnson Space Center Space Shuttle Site

Vice President Spiro Agnew and former President Lyndon B. Johnson view the liftoff of Apollo 11 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center

Similar cable-bus systems are in operation at a number of government sites, e. g. Walter Reed Army Hospital, and the NASA Johnson Space Center, but these are all standalone, local-only networks.

Just prior to the flight, on October 15, 1998, and for several months after, the main causeway to the Johnson Space Center, NASA Road 1, was temporarily renamed " John Glenn Parkway ".

Hadfield was assigned by the Canadian Space Agency ( CSA ) to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in August of the same year, where he addressed technical and safety issues for Shuttle Operations Development, contributed to the development of the glass shuttle cockpit, and supported shuttle launches at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida.

He was Chief of Robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003 – 2006 and was Chief of International Space Station Operations from 2006 – 2008.

On July 1, 1985, McAuliffe was announced as one of the 10 finalists, and on July 7 she traveled to Johnson Space Center for a week of thorough medical examinations and briefings about space flight.

The establishment on NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1963 soon created new growth opportunities for the county municipalities near Clear Lake and Harris County.

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Biographical Data Sheet ( PDF ).

With the initiation of the Constellation program in 2004, the knowledge gained on the OSP was transferred to Johnson Space Center ( JSC ) for use in the development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle.

MSC was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ( JSC ) in February 1973.

* Russell Johnson, actor, including It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) and This Island Earth ( 1955 ); best known to audiences as " The Professor " on Gilligan's Island TV series

Dickinson continued to grow due to its proximity to Texas City, with its shipyards and wartime industries, and later its proximity to the Johnson Space Center.

Today, the town serves as a suburb of Galveston and houses workers from the Johnson Space Center.

Austin is also home to numerous child developmental institutions including the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, the Central Texas Autism Center, Autism Early Learning Center, Johnson Center for Child Health and Development and many more.

In 2007, U. S. Department of Defense ’ s Telemedicine and Advanced Technologies Research Center ( TATRC ) began to study the antimicrobial properties of copper alloys, including four brasses ( C87610, C69300, C26000, C46400 ) in a multi-site clinical hospital trial conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( New York City ), the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center ( South Carolina ).

The George W. Johnson Learning Center, more commonly known as the Johnson Center or JC, is the central hub on campus, completed in 1995 and named after University President of 18 years, George W. Johnson.

The second and third floors of the Johnson Center are primarily used by the library, with multiple group meeting rooms, computer labs, a news and media resource, and a full service restaurant named George's located on the third floor.

The Johnson Center serves as the center for student life with many activities and productions sponsored by Program Board and Student Government.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

In 2007, shortly after announcing on his website that he would establish a presidential exploratory committee, Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the " Yes We Can " rally at the Johnson Center atrium.

A NASA multi-center Technology Applications Assessment Team led from the Johnson Spaceflight Center, has as of January 2011 described " Nautilus-X ", a concept study for a multi-mission space exploration vehicle useful for missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), of up to 24 months duration for a crew of up to six.

After inspecting Pei's work at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa and the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, they offered him the commission.

* 1906 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place ( d. 2005 )

In 2009, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs David Johnson inaugurated the Presidential Guard Training Center in Jericho, a $ 9. 1 million training facility for Palestinian Authority security forces built with U. S. funding.

On April 23, 1964, in the top of the ninth inning of a scoreless game in Colt Stadium, Rose reached first base on an error and scored on another error to make Houston Astros Ken Johnson the first pitcher to lose a complete game no-hitter.

In 1987, Johnson was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Houston.

His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, Sam Houston Johnson ( 1914 – 78 ), and sisters Rebekah ( 1910 – 78 ), Josefa ( 1912 – 61 ), and Lucia ( 1916 – 97 ).

Johnson briefly taught public speaking and debate in a Houston high school, then entered politics.

All US manned flights after Gemini 3 were controlled from the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, renamed for Johnson in 1973.

Houston Texas July 4, 1910-Charles Williams, a negro, had his throat cut by a white man on a street car when he cheered for Johnson.

It resulted in suspensions for Ward Ewing and Allan Houston for Game 6, as well as Larry Johnson and John Starks for Game 7.

* 1915 Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson, parents of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, move into their home in Johnson City with their five children, Lucia, Sam Houston.

Council members as of the 2008 election are James Mosely, William Bullion, Terrie Hicks, Philip Houston and Paula Johnson.

With the opening of the bridge and the Johnson Space Center ( JSC ) in Houston, Seabrook's population rose to approximately 6, 000.

Michael Coats, director of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, presented Cronkite with the Ambassador of Exploration Award.

Singers like Seeger and Guthrie would attend rallies for labor unions, and so wrote many songs concerning the life of the working classes, and social protest ; as did other folksingers like Josh White, Cisco Houston, Malvina Reynolds, Earl Robinson, Ewan MacColl, John Jacob Niles, and Doc Watson, while blues singers like Johnson and Hopkins wrote songs about their personal life experiences.

In July 1998, he reported for training at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, where he trained until 2003.

Selected by NASA in April 1996, Clark reported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in August 1996.

On April 20, 2005, NASA announced that scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston had removed the four solar-wind collectors from an instrument called the concentrator and found them in excellent shape.

In 1985 in conjunction with the Johnson Space Center and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Discovery astronauts created a video demonstrating how familiar toys behave in space.

In 1977, Lady Bird ( Claudia Taylor ) Johnson ( wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson ) became a director of Texas Commerce Bank and Texas Commerce Bancshares in Houston.