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Johnson Space Center

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Johnson Space Center

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An astronaut prepares for the weightlessness of space flight in an early space-simulator. As early as the 1960s, the US and Soviet space programs attempted to replicate the conditions of space travel. However, none of them genuinely nullified the effect of the Earth's gravity.
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US astronaut Mary Ellen Weber floats in a life raft following a simulated emergency parachute drop, in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center. Weber flew as mission specialist on STS-101 to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
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In the cockpit of a T-38 trainer, US astronaut Frederick Sturckow prepares for a flight from Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center. Sturckow piloted the space shuttle Discovery on STS-105.

NASA field centre at Houston, Texas, home of the mission control team for crewed space missions. Established in 1961, it is also NASA's main centre for the design and development of spacecraft, and the location for the Astronaut Selection Office and the training of astronauts.



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