Space Center Houston

[Naviguessor]

https://spacecenter.org/space-center-houston-reimagines-itself-with-a-bold-new-vision-turns-30-and-launches-new-brand/

[ChannelTwoNews]

future.spacecenter.org - new website for the Lunar/Mars Facility & Master Plan

 

[DotCom]

I think this should be a separate thread.  The Houston Space Center is a non-profit, not affiliated with NASA or the Johnson Space Center.

[Houston19514]

Can we correct the thread title?  It's called Space Center Houston.  Not Houston Space Center.

(and FWIW, yes, it is a nonprofit organization, not owned by NASA, but it's a bit of an overstatement to say it is not "affiliated" with NASA.)

[ChannelTwoNews]

https://communityimpact.com/houston/pearland-friendswood/development/2023/05/15/ready-to-launch-houston-spaceport-museum-plan-expansions-as-astronauts-prep-lunar-mission/

"“We did more than 40 workshops with scientists, engineers, commercial partners, government [and] educators. What evolved was a facility that could meet the needs of many of them, which became the Lunar Mars Surface Integration Facility,” Harris said. “My vision for Space Center Houston is that we’re a convening place where we bring together the government, the commercial, ... the academic and the community, and that this is a center of learning.”

Commercial companies, like ones at the spaceport, will be able to use the facility to create and test new technologies in an environment they wouldn’t otherwise be able to create, Bullock said.

“To be able to see astronauts in training, to see commercial companies developing their new technologies ... right in front of your eyes ... is something that you really aren’t going to be able to see anywhere else,” she said."