On June 30, she was named the 13th director of the Johnson Space Center and the first African American woman to lead a NASA center. She replaced Mark Geyer, who stepped down May 3 after being ...

Opened in 1961, NASA's Johnson Space Center (originally called the Manned Spacecraft Center) was the main hub for the Gemini and Apollo programs. Today it serves as the American base of operations ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Vanessa Wyche director of the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Janet Petro director of Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

George Abbey now has more than a herd of longhorns to his name at the entrance to NASA's Johnson Space Center. Driving by the Houston home to NASA's human spaceflight program, past the 35-acre ...

The Johnson Space Center has a list of activities and events to commemorate the anniversary that kicks off Thursday. The celebration will begin with remarks and a T-38 flyover at 5:30 p.m. and a ...