List of buildings in the Johnson Space Center

The buildings in the Johnson Space Center house facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's human spaceflight activities. The center consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on located in southeast Houston, Texas.

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

Building DescriptionOpened 1 Headquarters of JSC, including the offices of senior management and the JSC director1963 2 Public Affairs Office, Media briefing room, video production, and audio processing facilities (The JSC Visitors Center was a tenant until the opening of Space Center HoustonSpace Center Houston in October 1992.)1963 3 Main cafeteria and JSC Exchange Store1963 4-N Mission Operations support offices including Flight Director's Office1963 4-S Mission Operations support offices and Flight Crew Operations Division (including Astronaut Office)1993 5 Space Mission Simulation Facility (including the recently retired Shuttle Mission Simulators, or SMS, the ISS Mission Simulator, the Orion Mission Simulator, and the T-38 Flight Simulator)1966 7 Crew and Thermal Systems Division, including the vacuum chambers and space suit testing facilities, including the Environmental Test Article (ETA) Shuttle airlock vacuum chamber, the Space Station Airlock Test Article (SSATA) vacuum chamber, and the NASA 20-Foot Chamber1963 8 Photographic Laboratory and Multimedia Operations Facility1963 9 Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), including full-scale International Space Station module mockups and MPCV Orion developmental mockups. The Space Shuttle training mockups have been donated to outside organizations at the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program, and have been removed. 1966/1967 10 Engineering fabrication facility and machine shop1963 11 Satellite cafeteria and JSC Exchange Store1966 12 Office of Education, Human Resources Office, Language Lab, and Financial Management Division1963 13 Structures and Mechanics Laboratory1963 14 Electromagnetic compliance studies building1966 15 Human and Environmental Factors offices1966? 1616A Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (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 Systems Engineering Simulator (SES).1963 17 Space Food Systems Laboratory Offices for Space Exploration. 18 Morpheus Command Center 20 Safety and Mission Assurance, Office of Procurement 2010 21 Human Health and Performance Laboratory2017 24 Central Heating and Cooling Plant 25 26 Columbia Center 2010 27 Astronaut Quarantine Facility 2005 28 Auxiliary chiller facility 1991 29 Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Avionics Integration Laboratory; (CAIL) will be used to perform integrated avionics and flight software requirements verification. Originally served as the Weightless Environment Training Facility before the larger Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory was constructed to the north of the Johnson Space Center. The round portion of the building used to house a centrifuge which was used for astronaut training during the Gemini and Apollo eras.1966 30-A Mission Operations Directorate functional offices (Flight Design - FIDO, Ground Control - GC, etc.). The A in the building designation stands for Administration.1965 30-M Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, the historic Mission Control Center. This building is home to FCR1 (formerly MOCR-1), which is the flight control room for International Space Station, FCR2 (MOCR-2), which is known as the Historic Apollo Control Room, as well as multiple controller consoles and the training flight control room (Red FCR). The M in the building designation stands for Main building.1965 30-S Mission Control Center Space Station White FCR (formally the Space Shuttle control room, now ISS), Blue FCR (interim Orion Control Room), as well as flight consoles and data facilities. The S in the building designation stands for Space Station, as the entire building, especially the White Flight Control Room, was originally built-out for use by Space Station Freedom. During the build-out decisions were made to share resources between the Space Shuttle, station, and the White FCR, was changed to Shuttle during this process.1993? 31 Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science1966 31-N Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility 32 Space Environment Simulation Laboratory; two very large thermal-vacuum chambers for testing flight hardware, designated as a National Historic Landmark1966 33 Space Environment Simulation Test Facility with several small thermal-vacuum chambers for testing flight hardware1966 34 35 Guidance and Navigation Simulation Facility (hosted a fixed base crew station of the Shuttle Mission Simulator, and offices); demolished in 2018 36 37 Life Sciences Laboratory; formerly the Lunar Receiving Laboratory 41 Plant Operations Administration; formerly the Hypo/Hyperbaric Training Facility and Physiological Training Facility. Demolished on December 18, 2013. 1970 42 43 44 Communications and Tracking Division; formerly the Communications and Tracking Development Laboratory, Electronics Systems Test Laboratory and Audio Development Laboratory1966 45 Project Engineering; also housed the Mission Evaluation Room1966 45-N Occupational Clinic; formerly the Technical Library1966 46 Central Computing Facility 1989 47 48 Mission Control Power Plant 49 Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility 50 52 56 Collaborative working space for JSC employees 57 Collaborative working space for JSC employees 59 95 105 110 Security headquarters just outside the NASA gates by the employee entrance. Security issues badges for employees, contractors, and visitors. 111 Industry Assistance Office 163 204 207 Gilruth Center 208 Gilruth Sports Park 211 Aaron Cohen Childcare Center; current building replaced a smaller one constructed in 1990. 2000 220 Houses CHAPEA and HERA programs. 221 222 Atmospheric Reentry Materials and Structures Evaluation Facility; demolished in 2017. 1966 223 225 Administrative Support Facility Annex; formerly the Space Science Interim Facility; demolished on August 14, 2014. 1968 226 Administrative Support Facility Annex; first building constructed at JSC; demolished on November 14, 2014. 1963 227 Printing and Reproduction Facility; originally designed to support the first Apollo Program flight, which required real-time documents for astronaut training; primarily a large offset printing shop, producing the Space News Roundup and crew "pocket" flight plans; demolished in August 2021 1965 228 Environmental Hygiene Laboratory 229 Environmental Support Facility 230 Utility Annex 231 Custodial Storage 232 Custodial Administration Facility 241 259 Astronaut Selection and Isolation Quarters 1967 260 Water Immersion Facility 261 Planetary and Earth Sciences Lab 262A Storage Building No. 1 262B 263 Health Physics Laboratory 264 265 266 Medical Data Support Facility 267 Space Materials Research Laboratory 268A Planetary Analog Test Site, also known as the "Rock Yard." Simulates features of the lunar and Martian surface terrain, used for testing vehicle and spacesuit design 269 272 305 319 320 322 325 326 327 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 356A 357 358 359 360 361 380 381 382 411 412 413 415 416 417 418 419 Metrology Standards and Calibration Laboratory (MSCL) 420 421 422 423 424 425 T588 T589 Large Vehicle Inspection

See also

Mission Control Center Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Ellington Field NASA 20-Foot Chamber

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