An aerial view of the complete Johnson Space Center facility in Houston, Texas in 1989. A portion of Clear Lake can be seen at the top of the view. The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ("JSC") is the NASA installation wherein is located the Mission Control Center (MCC) for all American manned spaceflights since Gemini 5. JSC was originally established as "Manned Spacecraft Center" in 1961 and subsequently renamed the "Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center" in 1973, honoring the late president Lyndon B. Johnson, a native son of Texas.
JSC is located in Clear Lake City, which since 1977 has been a part of Houston, Texas. The land occupied by the space center was donated to NASA by Rice University. JSC's location is the reason that the first word spoken from the Moon's surface was "Houston".
See also: Robert Gilruth
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