IMAGE 0_99\19.Lbm,President John F Kennedy accepting a model Apollo CSM on a visit to the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, in 1962. Looking on (centre) is Lyndon B Johnson, after whom the Center is now named.
IMAGE 400_499\453.Lbm,Emblem for US manned spaceflight Mission Control, Houston, Texas.
IMAGE 0_99\70.Lbm,The scene at Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, after the textbook touchdown of Columbia on its first flight (STS-1) on April 14, 1981.
IMAGE 400_499\423.Lbm,Scene at Mission Control, Houston, just prior to the launch of Apollo on the ASTP mission on July 15, 1975.
IMAGE 500_599\538.Lbm,At Mission Control, Houston, during the STS-41B mission. The TV picture shows the comsat Westar VI in Challenger's payload bay.
IMAGE 0_99\49.Lbm,The centrifuge at the Johnson Space Center, which is used to give astronauts a taste of the g-forces they experience in orbit.
IMAGE 700_799\761.Lbm,The centrifuge at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, being used in 1966 for g-force training by Apollo astronauts.
IMAGE 700_799\762.Lbm,Ronald Evans in the gondola of the centrifuge during training for Apollo flights at the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
IMAGE 600_699\667.Lbm,One of the simulators at the Johnson Space Center in which astronauts train for shuttle flights.
IMAGE 700_799\754.Lbm,Multiexposure photograph showing operations in the docking simulator at the Johnson Space Center during training for the Apollo missions.
IMAGE 700_799\776.Lbm,Technicians at the Johnson Space Center demonstrate the shuttle spacesuit and personal rescue enclosure, for emergency use by astronauts without a spacesuit.
IMAGE 300_399\332.Lbm,A technician at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, taking readings radioed back from the seismometers left behind on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts. They formed part of the ALSEP scientific stations.
IMAGE 200_299\219.Lbm,Assisted by skin divers, STS-26 astronauts practice for EVA in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
IMAGE 500_599\590.Lbm,Scuba divers assist astronauts training for EVA in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center.
IMAGE 700_799\750.Lbm,Astronauts practise for EVA in the water tank at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. They are working in a shuttle orbiter mock-up.
IMAGE 500_599\527.Lbm,Passing over the Johnson Space Center, Houston, is NASA's Super Guppy, used now for transporting space shuttle parts and previously during the Apollo and Skylab projects.
