texan Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 JSC is building a new Emergency Operations Center to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane. The facility will house primary and redundant hardware for command and control. This will be the home of the center's hurricane rideout team. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted August 1, 2023 Author Share Posted August 1, 2023 Texas A&M's Space Collaboration Facility, funded by the Texas Space Commission appropriations from the legislature will be located on JSC property. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 They’re going to build on the mystery arrow? :( 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted August 16, 2023 Author Share Posted August 16, 2023 Texas A&M Space Institute, which will be housed in this building, was approved with Dr. Nancy Currie-Gregg being named director. She's got a great reputation in Clear Lake and in Aggieland. Fantastic choice. https://theeagle.com/news/a_m/a-m-regents-establish-space-institute-200m-a-m-facility-to-be-built-near-nasa/article_4ffe7f5a-3c6f-11ee-9df8-17ad1d7d7e58.html#tracking-source=home-top-story 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 The Emergency Operations Center is now complete and an addition to Building 31 (Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility) is either underway or now complete to create the "Advanced Sample and Asteroid Curation Facility). Building 37 (Lunar Receiving Laboratory) is slated for demolition. Additionally, a water tower is now under construction. https://projects.constructconnect.com/details/6393252-awarded-task-order-demolition-of-building-37-ancillary-buildings-structures-copy&find_loc=texas-77058 JSC Master Plan: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 Some additional info found from a NAL-JSC presentation by the director of center operations at NASA JSC: Artemis Rock Yard. 4 phases, will allow for suit, vehicle, and equipment testing. The TAMU Proving Ground referred to is the Innovation Proving Grounds at the Texas A&M RELLIS Campus in Bryan. The Innovation Proving Grounds were built for the Army Futures Command with an appropriation from the Texas Legislature. Current and Future Projects: The water tower, Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science Annex, and Building 37 demolition were previously mentioned. The Operations and Maintenance Facility is Project N1 from the short term plan in my last post. Building 49 (Vibration and Acoustics Test Facility) is being put out to bid for industry to lease. Also of note was that a new engineering facility would be built across the street from Building 13 and Building 15, beginning next fiscal year. JSC will be creating a new master plan beginning next year as well. The last major point of discussion was Texas A&M's facility at Exploration Park. This is moving through the planning phases. An interesting outcome of that project is that Space Center Houston's lunar/martian surface simulation facility will no longer be moving forward as currently planned. Texas A&M will build those two facilities and duplication doesn't make sense. If Space Center Houston includes Texas A&M's facility as part of their tours, the university will have scored a major recruiting coup. JSC expects to have private commercial space companies take up space in Exploration Park as well. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents will today consider negotiating and executing a lease with the Johnson Space Center for 32 acres for the Space Collaboration Facility. The legislature appropriated $200 million for this in the Texas Space Commission package. https://www.tamus.edu/regents/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2023/12/AGENDA-December-12-2023-Special-BOR-Meeting-Telephonic.pdf 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Texas A&M Space Institute first tenant in NASA's planned Exploration Park - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com) "On Feb. 15, TAMU System Chancellor John Sharp and Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, signed a ground lease committing the two entities to over 30 acres of space on land near the JSC for the $200 million Texas A&M Space Institute announced last year. The site is part of approximately 240 acres of space that is currently undeveloped and outside JSC's controlled area, which means access restrictions will be looser, Wyche said. NASA hopes to turn the land into a multipurpose development known as Exploration Park. The Space Institute is the development’s first tenant." 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 NASA Selects ACMI as Second Approved Exploration Park Facility - NASA - Press Release "NASA and the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) signed an agreement Thursday, Feb. 29 to lease underutilized land in a 240-acre Exploration Park at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ACMI will enable the development of facilities to enable commercial and defense space manufacturing. The agreement is the second such public/private lease agreement to allow industry and academia to use NASA Johnson land to create facilities for a collaborative development environment that increases commercial access and enhances the United States’ commercial competitiveness in the space and aerospace industries. NASA signed a similar lease with the Texas A&M University System earlier this month. Calling it the Space Systems Campus, ACMI plans to incorporate an applied research facility partnered with multiple stakeholders across academia, state and local government, the Department of Defense and regional economic development organizations." 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texan Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 RFQ for a Design-Build team posted for Texas A&M's Space Collaboration Facility at the Johnson Space Center's Exploration Park. https://www.txsmartbuy.com/esbddetails/view/DB-RFQ-02-3417 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 What NASA's Houston development means for Space City identity - Houston Business Journal (bizjournals.com) "She added that she did not see a separation between NASA’s efforts and developments at the Houston Spaceport, where Axiom Space and Intuitive Machines have infrastructure gearing up to produce spacecraft of the future. “We are continuing to be that leader in Houston spaceflight and we will continue to be that leader,” Wyche said. “But we have to be doing it in a way that we’re collaborating with many different people while maintaining our strategic leadership. We’re getting ready to do flight tests for Boeing, we have the Orion spacecraft for Artemis. If that doesn’t make us Space City, I don’t know what does." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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