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Johnson Space Center

  • Lunar Receiving LaboratoryThe Lunar Receiving Laboratory opened its doors in 1969 with a single, terrifying goal. Scientists feared that the Moon might harbor unknown pathogens…
  • Lunar Sample Laboratory FacilityIn 1964, a proposal emerged for a small sample receiving laboratory equipped with remote-controlled manipulators operating in a sterile high-vacuum chamber.
  • Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control CenterIn 1960, the first Mercury Control Center opened at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex in Florida. This facility sat inside the Engineering Support…
  • Johnson Space CenterOn the 5th of November 1958, Robert R. Gilruth led a small group of forty-five people from the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to begin Project…