Apollo Mission Control Center
United States historic place in Houston, Texas. Added to the National Register in 1985, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that manages flight control for the United States human space program, currently involving astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the Artemis missions to the moon. The center is in Building 30 at the Johnson Space Center and is named after Christopher C. Kraft Jr., a NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation, and was the first Flight Director.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Flight Center, Houston, TX |
| County | Harris County |
| Listed | Oct 3, 1985 |
| Reference number | 85002815 |
| Type of place | mission control center, building |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 buildings |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Flight Center, Houston, TX |
| Coordinates | 29.55831, -95.08866 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Big Thicket National Preserve · 75 mi · on Park Atlas |
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Nearby in Harris County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 85002815. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.