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JOHNSON SPACE CENTER NASA AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN TEXAS SPACE CENTER HOUSTON JSC operates three facilities in Texas covering nearly 1,700 acres. • In 2018 the city of Houston approved $18.8 million toward the The nonprot Space Center Houston is JSC’s ofcial visitor JSC Main Campus is by far the largest at 1,620 acres. Additional development of a “Houston Spaceport” at Ellington Field, a center. Space Center Houston was originally funded from operations are located at nearby Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base proposed hub for aerospace companies. $68.4 million in tax-exempt bonds with experts from Walt (JRB) and the Sonny Carter Training Facility/Neutral Buoyancy • The McDonald Geodetic Observatory, a new facility under Disney Imagineering helping the Manned Space ight Lab (NBL). construction on the grounds of McDonald Observatory in West Education Foundation to create “a world-class facility where NASA JSC is NASA’s training base for its 38 active astronauts and 11 Texas, was created through a $4.25 million contract between the public could come to touch the space program — astronaut candidates. It’s the site of Mission Control, which NASA and the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Space and be touched by it.” TEXAS ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT managed the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs. Research. CALLED “THE BEST MUSEUM IN TEXAS” BY USA TODAY, SPACE CENTER JSC also is the lead control center for ISS operations. The ISS offers • Texas State University’s LBJ Institute for STEM (Science, HOUSTON IS ONE OF THE STATE’S TOP TOURIST ATTRACTIONS, DRAWING access to international, commercial and economic microgravity Technology, Engineering and Math) Education and Research AN ESTIMATED 1.1 MILLION VISITORS IN 2018, ABOUT 66 PERCENT OF THEM Located in Clear Lake, Texas, just outside Houston, the research opportunities not available anywhere else, and more recently participated in a $3 million NASA grant program to 726,000 FROM OUTSIDE TEXAS. THESE OUTOFSTATE VISITORS ACCOUNT Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the seat of human than 250 research and technology development experiments support its STEM Teacher Excellence Project. FOR INSTATE PURCHASES SUCH AS MUSEUM TICKETS, HOTEL STAYS, space ight operations for the National Aeronautics and are operating continuously on the station. NASA recently set FOOD AND BEVERAGES AS WELL Space Administration (NASA). JSC is the site of the Mission AS PURCHASES AT THE SPACE IT IS ESTIMATED THAT OUTOFSTATE VISITORS aside a 5 percent crew time 2018 PAYMENTS TO TEXAS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Control Center (which manages crewed space missions CENTER HOUSTON GIFT SHOP. SPEND MORE THAN $150 MILLION ANNUALLY allocation for commercial and JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TOTAL UNIVERSITIES AND AFFILIATED RESEARCH IN TEXAS AS A RESULT OF THEIR VISITS TO including continuous International Space Station [ISS] marketing activities, setting BUDGET BY PROGRAM ORGANIZATIONS FOR GRANTS AWARDED BY NASA JSC, AN AMOUNT THAT IN TURN GENERATES operations), and the home of astronaut training, and the stage for future private ALL U.S. FACILITIES, FISCAL 2018 FUNDING PROVIDED ABOUT $10 MILLION IN STATE TAXES. ENTITY NASA’s Orion spacecraft and lunar-orbiting Gateway IN 2018 space operations. INTERNATIONAL SPACE outpost programs. Both help make up NASA’s Artemis STATION $1.11 BILLION CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE $11,808,000 VISITORS TO JSC IN 2018 INTERNATIONAL program, an agency-wide effort to return astronauts to the BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE $7,924,000 JOHNSON SPACE CREW VEHICLE $1.21 BILLION moon within ve years. With the aid of international and UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION $6,838,000 CENTER MAIN CAMPUS HUMAN RESEARCH PROGRAM $115.4 MILLION OTHER STATES commercial partners, Artemis will test key technologies TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY $922,000 and capabilities to enable sustainable operations on and FACILITIES COMMERCIAL CREW 33% 163 PROGRAM $68.2 MILLION UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH $907,000 around the moon, preparing future explorers for landings 3,986,403 SQ. FT. ADVANCED EXPLORATION UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM $624,000 on Mars. TOTAL FACILITY SPACE SYSTEMS $75.5 MILLION ALPHA SPACE TEST AND RESEARCH ALLIANCE $502,000 33% COMMERCIAL CARGO PROGRAM $1.35 BILLION UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER $444,000

SOURCE: NASA’S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER DIRECT AND WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY $362,000 INDIRECT HOUSTON AREA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN $318,000 EMPLOYMENT RESIDENTS 52,352 SONNY CARTER TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM $166,000 TRAINING FACILITY/NBL FROM 2010 OTHER TEXAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO $95,000 TO 2018, NASA PAID OUT 8% GROSS FACILITIES 2 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY $78,000 DOMESTIC $375 MILLION AN ESTIMATED PRODUCT TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION $52,000 $4.7 BILLION 278,401 SQ. FT. IN GRANTS TO TEXAS PUBLIC 26% TOTAL FACILITY SPACE AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES METHODIST HOSPITAL $29,000 ELLINGTON FIELD AS WELL AS AFFILIATED THE NBL’S MAIN PURPOSE IS TO PREPARE TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH $20,000 RESEARCH OUTPUT 26 FACILITIES ASTRONAUTS FOR SPACEFLIGHT AND ORGANIZATIONS. MILLION SPACEWALKS. NBL PROVIDES CONTROLLED 1.1 $7.9 BILLION GRAND TOTAL NEUTRAL BUOYANCY OPERATIONS IN A 302,568 SQ. FT. $31,088,000 TOTAL FACILITY SPACE 6.2MILLIONGALLON POOL TO SIMULATE PEOPLE VISITED JSC IN 2018 SOURCES: NASA, TEXAS COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, REMI THE WEIGHTLESS CONDITIONS SOURCE: NASA’S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ELLINGTON JRB IS A JOINT INSTALLATION EXPERIENCED DURING SPACE FLIGHT. THE SHARED BY THE FIVE U.S. MILITARY NBL HAS A FULLTIME SCUBA DIVE TEAM OF NASA ESTABLISHED ITS MANNED SPACECRAFT BRANCHES AND NASA. IT’S THE CENTER ABOUT 40 AS WELL AS A TEAM OF MEDICAL, RICE UNIVERSITY: CENTER IN 1961, ON A 1,000 ACRE SITE OF JSC’S ASTRONAUT FLIGHT TRAINING ADMINISTRATIVE AND MAINTENANCE NASA ESTABLISHED ITS MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER MSC IN 1961, ON A OPERATIONS. JRB ALSO HOSTS JSC’S ON SEPT. 12, 1962, DONATED BY RICE UNIVERSITY. JSC ON THE SILVER SCREEN PERSONNEL. 1,000ACRE SITE DONATED BY RICE UNIVERSITY. THE MSC LATER WAS RENAMED AIRCRAFT LOGISTICS, CARGO PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY NASA also plays a role in the Texas lm industry. TO HONOR FORMER PRESIDENT JOHNSON, AN EARLY CHAMPION OF NASA’S AND HIGHALTITUDE RESEARCH ADDRESSED THE NATION FROM THE RICE UNIVERSITY STADIUM, URGING AMERICANS In 2018, NASA worked on more than 174 TEXAS OPERATIONS. HOUSTON PROVIDED NASA WITH THE ECONOMIC, AIRCRAFT, WITH TO EMBRACE SPACE EXPLORATION BY SENDING MAN TO THE MOON. RICE TOOK LOGISTICAL AND INTELLECTUAL SUPPORT NEEDED FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT. 13 PILOTS ON STAFF. PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S WORDS TO HEART AND IN 1963 CREATED THE NATION’S documentaries, 58 notable features and 15 TODAY, NASA EMPLOYS ABOUT 11,000 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKERS IN TEXAS, FIRSTEVER SPACE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT. feature lms. JSC facilities provided a backdrop CONTRIBUTING TO LOCAL AND STATE ECONOMIES AS WELL AS UNIVERSITY AND for lm projects such as Apollo 13, Space THE UNIVERSITY’S CONNECTION WITH NASA AND JSC CONTINUES TODAY. COMMERCIAL RESEARCH. NASA PERSONNEL SERVE AS INSTRUCTORS, MENTORS AND BOARD Cowboys, First Man and The Martian, as well as MEMBERS. RICE CURRENTLY EMPLOYS TWO ASTRONAUTS AS ADJUNCT documentary and educational programming. PROFESSORS. AS OF SUMMER 2019, RICE WAS THE BENEFICIARY OF 33 ACTIVE NASA GRANTS WORTH $14.7 MILLION. Glenn Hegar Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 1/2 FOOTBALL FIELD X 35 FEET DEEP $189 MILLION FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TEXAS’ FIRSTS: TO WALK IN SPACE MOON ORBITING THE APPROXIMATE SIZE OF THE POOL USED TO PREPARE JSC SPENDING THAT DR. BERNARD HARRIS JR. PILOT FOR FIRST ORBITAL ASTRONAUTS FOR SPACEFLIGHT AND SPACEWALKS AT DIRECTLY SUPPORTED SMALL NATIVE OF TEMPLE SPACE STATION THE NEUTRAL BUOYANCY LAB. BUSINESSES IN 2018. TEST FLIGHT OF THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM PART OF THE LUNAR

ROBERT L. CRIPPEN INITIATIVE KNOWN AS “GATEWAY”, PLANNED FIRST FEMALE NATIVE OF BEAUMONT AND ADMINISTERED BY PAYLOAD SPECIALIST NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK $31M/$375M JOHNSON SPACE CENTER. DR. MILLIE HUGHESFULFORD THE DESIGNATION GIVEN TO THE APOLLO PAYMENTS TO TEXAS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE NATIVE OF MINERAL WELLS MISSION CONTROL CENTER IN 1985. UNIVERSITIES AS WELL AS AFFILIATED FIRST WOMAN TO WORK REFURBISHED AND REOPENED TO THE RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS FOR GRANTS IN MISSION CONTROL PUBLIC IN 2019. AWARDED BY NASA, FOR THE YEAR 2018 AND FRANCES NORTHCUTT THE YEARS 2010 TO 2018, RESPECTIVELY. $4.6 RAISED IN LULING 1.1 MILLION FIRST AMERICAN TO NUMBER OF VISITORS SPACE WALK IN SPACE CENTER HOUSTON DRAWS ED WHITE ANNUALLY NATIVE OF SAN ANTONIO FIRST TO DRIVE A WHEELED >250,000 BILLION VEHICLE ON THE LUNAR JSC’S TOTAL BUDGET FOR 2018, SURFACE. THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS FROM WITH $2.3 BILLION 51 PERCENT DR. DAVID R. SCOTT AROUND THE WORLD WHO VISIT JSC ANNUALLY. OF THAT SPENT IN TEXAS. NATIVE OF SAN ANTONIO

THE WORK FORCE THE FUTURE CONCLUSION INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATED WITH JSC PAY AVERAGE WAGES POWERED BY TEXANS TWO TO THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN THE AVERAGE WAGE FOR TEXAS AND THE NEW SPACE AGE JSC will contribute signicantly to NASA’s Artemis Program with the Orion crew vehicle, the Gateway ALL INDUSTRIES IN TEXAS AND THE GULF In 2018, NASA’s Texas operations employed about 11,000. Program, astronaut training and mission operations. THE GATEWAY PROGRAM, A PLANNED The Comptroller’s ofce estimates NASA’s Texas operations COAST REGION. JSC will play a large part in international and commercial contributed more than $4.7 billion to the state’s GDP and MOON ORBITING SPACE STATION partnerships for the Artemis Program, pulling supported more than 52,000 Texas jobs in 2018, including OF NASA’S APPROXIMATELY 11,000 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE JSC is home to the Gateway Program: a moon-orbiting space signicantly from the foundation set by the ISS program. direct and contractor employees as well as jobs related to EMPLOYEES IN TEXAS, 96 PERCENT HOLD AT LEAST A station designed as a key part of the Artemis Program. JSC also leads the Orion Crew Vehicle Program (for deep space NASA makes a $4.7 billion annual impact on the Texas NASA activities. BACHELOR’S DEGREE AND 43 PERCENT HOLD A MASTER’S exploration) and the Human Research Program (biomedical economy and directly and indirectly supports more DEGREE OR HIGHER. methods and technologies for safe space travel) and shares than 52,000 public and private jobs. It plays a critical responsibility for leading the Commercial Crew and Cargo role in education, research, tourism and business TEXAS AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGES BY INDUSTRY, 2018 Program (commercial human spacecraft for low-earth orbit). activities in Texas’ Gulf Coast Region and the state as a INDUSTRY AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGE JSC AND SMALL BUSINESSES whole. NASA’s relationship with Texas continues to GUIDED MISSILE AND SPACE VEHICLE MANUFACTURING THE CLEVER PLANET PROJECT prosper and evolve. $163,126 The federal Small Business Innovation Research/Small A Rice-led research team was awarded a $7.7 million grant to join NONSCHEDULED CHARTERED FREIGHT AIR TRANSPORTATION Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Program the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science Project to determine $66,393 provides opportunities for small businesses (up to 500 how planets capable of supporting life are formed. ENGINEERING SERVICES employees) to collaborate with NASA on research and $111,607 development efforts in key technology areas. THE TULIPSS PROJECT The Tunable Light-Guide Image Processing Snapshot Spectrome- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCES $116,359 IN 2018, THE STTR PROGRAM ter (TuLIPSS) Project, led by Dr. David Alexander, director of the AWARDED 146 BUSINESSES Rice Space Institute, and bioengineer Dr. Tomasz Tkaczyk, is RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN NANOTECHNOLOGY $148,753 APPROXIMATELY $123 MILLION. developing technology to place a small spectrometer in space for the remote sensing of surface and atmospheric phenomena. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN BIOTECHNOLOGY In all, $189 million in JSC spending directly supported $121,140 163 small businesses in Texas in 2018. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCES $111,848 Glenn Hegar Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts SOURCE: CHMURA ECONOMICS 96-1813 (9/19)