NASA Announces Transfer of Mission Control to Houston

Category Science, Technology & Space

Date April 9, 1965

Country United States

NASA announced that primary control of crewed missions would transfer from Florida to the new Mission Control Center in Houston. The move established the facility that would oversee major American human-spaceflight missions.

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