"It was the kind of thing that only happens once in your life," Kranz said. As millions around the world watched the first lunar landing attempt, the employees at NASA's mission control center in ...

There are fewer of them then there are astronauts and no NASA spaceflight would be a success without them at the helm. Yet, if the public knows anything about them it is likely 50-year-old history, ...

With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA's Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room ...

List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Johnson Space Center -- 2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- 3. European Space Operations Centre -- 4. International ...

HOUSTON—Here in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), a funding drive is underway to restore the aging landmark Apollo Mission Control Center (MCC) for enhanced public viewing. The ...

NASA's mission control might soon move its back-up operations from Alabama to Downtown Bryan. Local startup company TSTAR -- Texas Space Technology Applications and Research -- signed an agreement ...