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Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

NASA field center in Houston, Texas, United States
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Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
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Summary

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is a NASA facility[1]. It draws 2,454 Wikipedia views per month (nasa facility category, ranking #3 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Houston[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: space center[5], research institute[6], research center[7]
  • Operator: National Aeronautics and Space Administration[8]
  • Named after: Lyndon B. Johnson[9]
  • Child organization or unit: Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate[10]
  • Commons category: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center[11]
  • Located in time zone: Central Time Zone[12]
  • Inception: November 1, 1961[13], April 1963[14]
  • Participant: Brown and Root[15], Manned Spacecraft Center Architects[16], MacKie and Kamrath[17]
  • Parent organization or unit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration[18]
  • Significant event: start of construction[19]
  • Official website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/index.html[20], https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Johnson Space Center[22]
  • Commons gallery: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center[23]
  • Director / manager: Vanessa E. Wyche[24]
  • Employees: 3200[25]
  • Replaces: Space Task Group[26]
  • Official name: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center[27]
  • Date of official opening: June 1964[28]
  • Short name: JSC[29]
  • Has works in the collection: National Air and Space Museum[30]
  • Social media followers: 1,368,380[31], 1,083,430[32], 617,000[33], 1,709,158[34], 1,995,344[35]

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center include Houston Rockets[36], a basketball team[37], in United States[38], founded in 1967[39], headquartered in Houston[40].

Why It Matters

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for it include Houston Rockets[36], a basketball team[37], in United States[38], founded in 1967[39], headquartered in Houston[40].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Buildings of Texas collection. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Buildings of Texas collection. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Karl Kamrath collection. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'be', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es',
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  2. 5w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center, Johnson_Space_Center
    Openstreetmap way id → 32541009
    Oxford reference overview id → 20110803100023133
    Yle topic id → 18-234536, 18-350452
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