NASA Johnson Space Center, Shuttle Mission Control Room, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, TX

Significance: The Mission Control Center (MCC) at Johnson Space Center in Houston has been the hub of America's human space flight since 1965. Since the International Space Station construction began in 1998, it has also been a cornerstone of worldwide human spaceflight. At Mission Control, Houston, teams of subject matter specialists pour over reams of data constantly relayed to MCC assessing the operational status of every vital system, experiment, and the astronauts themselves, to ensure the health and safety of the astronauts and ensure operations are proceeding as planned or develop alternative scenarios if deviations are deemed necessary. Mission Control continues to be a vital link between the scores of highly trained specialists on earth and the relative few living and working in the high-risk environment of space.

The Space Shuttle Mission Control Room, or the White Flight Control Room, was the last in a series of control rooms in NASA's Mission Control Center used for monitoring, supporting, and controlling activities during the duration of the Space Shuttle Program. In use from 1995 until the retirement of the shuttle fleet in 2011, the White Control Room directed the on-orbit activities of the shuttle fleet through numerous satellite deployments, retrievals and repairs, and the construction of the International Space Station. The progression through ever-increasingly sophisticated flight control systems is a testament to the flexibility and adaptability of the Mission Control Center as a whole. Upon the shuttle fleet retirement and the end of the Space Shuttle program, the White Flight Control Room has undergone a refurbishment and upgrade process that incorporates the most advanced systems available in preparation to continue to support the International Space Station well into the future.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1697
Survey number: HAER TX-109-E