Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center

NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center, also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in , Texas, that manages flight control for the United States human space program, currently involving astronauts aboard the International Space Station and the Artemis missions to the moon.
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  • Building
  • …lies at an elevation of 16 feet (5 metres)
  • Description: spacecraft control center at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
  • Address: TX
  • Also known as
    “Integrated Mission Control Center”
    “MCC-H”
    “Mission Control Center, Houston”
    “Mission Control Houston”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Johnson Space Center and Space Shuttle Independence.
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Research institute
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Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nassau Bay and Clear Lake.
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center

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Latitude
29.55829° or 29° 33′ 30″ north
Longitude
-95.08854° or 95° 5′ 19″ west
Open location code
76X6HW56+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368160086
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q5112041

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مركز كريستوفر سي. كرافت جونيور للتحكم بالمهمات”
  • Asturian: “Centru de Control de Misiones Christopher C. Kraft Jr.”
  • Chinese: “任務控制總部”
  • Chinese: “太空任务控制中心”
  • Chinese: “太空任務控制中心”
  • French: “Centre de contrôle de mission Christopher C. Kraft Jr.”
  • Hebrew: “בניין מרכז בקרת המשימה”
  • Indonesian: “Pusat Pengendali Misi Christopher C. Kraft Jr.”
  • Italian: “Centro di controllo missione Christopher C. Kraft Jr.”
  • Japanese: “クリストファー・C・クラフト・ジュニア・ミッションコントロールセンター”
  • Japanese: “クリストファー・C・クラフトJrミッションコントロールセンター”
  • Portuguese: “Centro de Controle de Missão Christopher C. Kraft Jr.”
  • Romanian: “Centrul de Control al Misiunii Christopher C. Kraft Jr.”
  • Turkish: “Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Görev Kontrol Merkezi”

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Highlights include Johnson Space Center Combined Heat & Power and Johnson Space Center heliport.

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