Johnson Space Center - Houston, TX

The mission of NASA's Johnson Space Center is the expansion of a human presence in space through exploration and utilization for the benefit of all. JSC is the center of excellence for human operations in space and provides national leadership and technological preeminence in those capabilities and technologies that support human operations in space. Principal areas include human spacecraft and habitat design, human space life sciences, flight crew operations, mission operations and training, planetary surface systems for human operations, and astromaterials collections and analysis. JSC is the lead center for the Space Shuttle Program which is retiring in 2010 and will be home of the new space program Constellation, the International Space Station program, space operations, biomedical research and countermeasures program, and the advanced human support technology program. Agency wide assignments include extravehicular activity (EVA), robotics technology associated with human activities, space medicine, technology utilization on the International Space Station, and exploration mission planning and design.