Houston - Space Center: Mission Control Center - Green Consoles

            The Apollo era Green Consoles supported missions for Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo/Soyuz, and Shuttle through the STS-76 mission in March 1996.  The Green consoles were supported using a Mainframe Computer Architecture.  Beginning with the Shuttle STS-70 mission in July 1995, the Green consoles were used for Shuttle Ascent and Entry only and the Blue consoles supported on-orbit operations.  For the Shuttle STS-76 mission, the Green console supported Ascent operations only while the Blue consoles supported on-orbit and entry operations.  the Green consoles were retired following the Shuttle STS-76 mission.

NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), located in Building 30 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, is the facility that manages flight control for America's human space program.  First used in June 1965, it was named after Christopher C. Kraft Jr., a retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation, and served as its first Flight Director.  It later served the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle missions and it is used today by flight controllers who command, monitor, and plan operations for the International Space Station (ISS). 

Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of  NASA Johnson Space Center and a Smithsonian Affiliate Museum owned and operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation.  The center opened in 1992 and hosts more than 1 million visitors annually in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex with over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, attractions, live shows and theaters dedicated to preserving the history of America's human spaceflight program.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.  Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in 1962 and the 1,620-acre facility officially opened for business in September 1963.  The center is home to NASA's astronaut corps, and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as "Mission Control" during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights.  It is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the Moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored.

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