THE LOCATIONS

¶NASA Headquarters, located in Washington D.C., is responsible for leadership and management across five strategic enterprises: Aerospace Technology, Biological and Physical Research, Earth Science, Space Science, and Human Exploration and Development of Space. NASA Headquarters also provides strategic management for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.

¶The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was established in 1961 as the Manned Spacecraft Center and has led the development of every U.S. manned space flight program. Currently, Johnson is home to both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station Program Offices. The facilities at Johnson include the training, simulation, and mission control centers for the Space Shuttle and Space Station. Johnson also has flight operations at Ellington Field, where the training aircraft for the astronauts and support aircraft for the Space Shuttle Program are stationed, and manages the White Sands Test Facility, New Mexico, where hazardous testing is conducted.

¶The Kennedy Space Center was created to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon, and currently provides launch and landing facilities for the Space Shuttle. The Center is located on Merritt Island, Florida, adjacent to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station that also provides support for the Space Shuttle Program (and was the site of the earlier Mercury and Gemini launches). Personnel at Kennedy support maintenance and overhaul services for the Orbiters, assemble and check-out the integrated vehicle prior to launch, and operate the Space Station Processing Facility where components of the orbiting laboratory are packaged for launch aboard the Space Shuttle. The majority of contractor personnel assigned to Kennedy are part of the Space Flight Operations Contract administered by the Space Shuttle Program Office at Johnson.

¶The Marshall Space Flight Center, near Hunstville, Alabama, is home to most NASA rocket propulsion efforts. The Space Shuttle

Projects Office located at Marshall—organizationally part of the Space Shuttle Program Office at Johnson—manages the manufacturing and support contracts to Boeing Rocketdyne for the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), to Lockheed Martin for the External Tank (ET), and to ATK Thiokol Propulsion for the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM, the major piece of the Solid Rocket Booster). Marshall is also involved in microgravity research and space product development programs that fly as payloads on the Space Shuttle.

The Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, is the largest rocket propulsion test complex in the United States. Stennis

provides all of the testing facilities for the Space

¶Shuttle Main Engines and External Administrator Space Shuttle Program Tank. (The Solid Rocket Boosters are NASA Organization tested at the ATK Thiokol Propulsion facilities in Utah.) Human Exploration & Development of Space

¶Associate Administrator The Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, has evolved from its

¶International Space Station and aeronautical research roots to become Space Shuttle Programs a Center of Excellence for information Deputy Associate Administrator technology. The Centerʼs primary importance to the Space Shuttle Program, however, lies in wind tunnel and arc-jet Space Shuttle Program Office testing, and the development of thermal Manager, Space Shuttle Program (SSP) Manager, SSP Safety and Mission Assurance

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¶protection system concepts. Manager, Launch Integration (KSC) Manager, SSP Development

¶Manager, Program Integration Manager, SSP Logistics (KSC)

¶The Langley Research Center, at Hamp- ton, Virginia, is the agencyʼs primary center for structures and materials and Space Shuttle Space Shuttle

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