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(Syracuse,
N.Y., September 16, 2002) – The Johnson Space Center, located
in Houston, was built on a vast 1,600-acre plot of land in the
early 1960s. More than 9,000 tons of Carrier refrigeration were
installed during the construction. The Center has led NASA's
efforts in human space exploration since opening in 1964,
contributing to the Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects and the
more recent Space Shuttle and International Space Station
Programs.
The Center was established in 1961 as the Manned Spacecraft
Center. From the beginning, the Center was intended to be the
lead center for all space missions involving astronauts. In
1973, the name was changed to Johnson Space Center in honor of
the late President and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Since 1965, the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center
has been NASA's home for Mission Control. The teams that work in
Mission Control have been vital to every U.S. human space flight
since the Gemini IV mission in 1965. By the 1990s, the original
Mission Control had grown outdated. The new Mission Control
Center became operational in 1995, and the original one was
promptly declared a national monument. Since International Space
Station assembly began in 1998, the Center has become a nerve
center for human spaceflight worldwide.
Johnson Space Center's hardworking team of scientists, engineers
and crafts persons have managed the design, development and
testing of all U.S. human spacecraft since 1964. The Center is
also home to America's astronaut corps and prepares explorers
from both the U.S. and its partner nations for the demands of
living and working in space. The Center houses and examines
Apollo lunar samples and probable Martian meteorites, and it is
home to the study of the science and medicine of space flight.
But Carrier's relationship with NASA goes beyond the Johnson
Space Center. In addition to its early contributions to the
icing tunnels at Lewis
Space Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Carrier is a part of the
Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) project team. Located in
Huntsville, Ala., MSFC is NASA's center of excellence for the
development of rocket propulsion systems.
In October 2001, a NASA program at MSFC found that application
of hydrostatic bearing technologies may well revolutionize the
world commercial air conditioning industry, eliminate a source
of environmentally hazardous chlorofluorocarbons, and speed the
development of the next generation of military and civilian
spacecraft.
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