NP-2017-04-009-JSC ABOUT THE JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

NASA’S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER is working toward a bright future and improving life on Earth today with new technology, research, and science. Located on over 1700 acres in Houston, Texas, our roots here are strengthened through partnerships with Texas universities, private companies, and nonprofits, and we are constantly seeking new paths for local collaboration. NASA is setting its sights on deep space exploration, and Texas will play a critical role in that mission. ECONOMIC IMPACT Astronauts work closely with DOING BUSINESS WITH TEXAS engineers at the Johnson Space Center to design the Orion spacecraft for safe and successful JSC Budget deep space exploration missions. $4.42B $2.02B Total JSC Budget Total JSC Budget Spent in Texas (JSC spending on contracts and federal salaries) Select NASA Expenditures in Texas

Leading the Way – Building Texas’ Aerospace Infrastructure $108M $46M $62M JSC CONTINUES TO SERVE as the leader and originator of Small Business Small Disadvantaged Women-Owned Business human space flight, drawing more and more aerospace industry Business to the Greater Houston Region and Texas every year. As JSC’s FY 16 BUDGET BY PROGRAM mission expands in coming decades to accommodate missions to more distant destinations, Texas will continue to provide a perfect home-base for training, planning, and command. • $1.1B International Space Station $11.8M $23.4M $5.2M Small Business 8(a) Contracts Innovative Research NASA Research • $1.2B Orion Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle Announcements (JSC spending on Research Opportunities in Space and Earth • $34.8M Commercial Crew Program Science (ROSES) across the nation) $18.3M $62.8M • $47.2M Advanced Exploration Systems Universities Non-profit Awards

• $1.4B Commercial Cargo Program

2 NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER 3 Our People - NASA JSC Workforce SPACE CENTER HOUSTON NASA/JSC Workforce White Sands Test Workforce: in Texas: Facility Workforce: HOUSTON’S ONLY SMITHSONIAN AFFILIATE MUSEUM, Estimated Federal and Space Center Houston, JSC's official visitor's center, generates • Over 1 million visitors Contractor Workforce annually a $73M economic impact, 925 jobs and $36M in Salaries in Texas and personal income in greater Houston. • More than 200,000 youth visited • Federal Employees: 2,952 • Federal Employees: 2,906 • Federal Employees: 45 New Mexico the center • Contractors: 8,026 • Contractors: 7,630 • Contractors: 396 • Total JSC Workforce: 10,978 • Total in Texas: 10,536 • Total WSTF: 441 • Approximately 400 employees and $1.857B contractors • 4900 volunteer hours

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Engineers or Perform science, Hold science, Hold at least a Are minorities Hold a graduate Are female scientist technical or engineering or Bachelor’s Degree degree aerospace work technical degrees

As JSC's past is also this state’s heritage, Space Center Houston plays a critical role in the preservation of Texas history. Mission artifacts from STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Mercury through Shuttle are on display for all to see, including a touchable moon rock, a Saturn V rocket, and the original shuttle THROUGH STRATEGIC BUSINESS AND PARTNERSHIPS, JSC carrier aircraft NASA 905 with the continues to partner with academia, industry, and non-profits full-scale shuttle replica to advance technologies that will enable space exploration and Independence that visitors can benefit life on Earth. In 2015/2016, enter and explore. • JSC partnered with 83 Texas based organizations formally through our space act agreements. • Participated in various technology based conferences (e.g., 2016 SpaceCom, Technology Collaboration Center, Offshore Technology Conference, Houston Texas Medical Center Xconomy, South by Southwest, and Pumps-N-Pipes) through speakers, exhibits, and participation. • Invited over 1,000 guests to JSC to see space technology and speak with our technical experts. JSC offers co-development opportunities as well as technology that will be transferred from across NASA. In turn, we also seek NASA Exhibit at Space Commerce Conference and advanced technologies from various Texas industries. This two Exposition in Houston, TX way exchange of information, ideas, and innovation positions both our partners and JSC for the new era of deep space exploration.

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Human exploration of Deep Space crosses Earth Reliant Earth Independent three thresholds - Earth Earth Reliant exploration is focused on research aboard the International Earth Independent activities will build on what we Reliant, Proving Ground, Space Station. From this world-class microgravity laboratory, we are testing learn on the space station and in the proving ground to technologies and advancing human health and performance research that and Earth Independent enable human missions to the Mars vicinity, possibly will enable deep space, long duration missions. Our Commercial Crew and - each with increasing to low-Mars orbit or one of the Martian moons, and Cargo partners are working hard to maintain operations in low-Earth orbit. eventually the Martian surface. Future Mars missions challenges as humans move This secured US commercial access to low-Earth orbit allows NASA to will represent a collaborative effort between NASA continue leveraging ISS as a microgravity test bed while preparing missions farther from Earth. JSC is and its partners—a global achievement that marks a in the proving ground of deep space and beyond. managing these challenges transition in humanity’s expansion as we go to Mars to by developing and seek the potential for sustainable life beyond Earth. demonstrating capabilities in incremental steps:

NASA’s strategic vision is implemented throughout JSC engineering, science, exploration, and flight Proving Ground operations. JSC contributes to all stages in the development of In the Proving Ground, NASA will learn to conduct complex operations in a deep space environment that elements needed for a safe allows crews to return to Earth in a matter of days. human Mars mission. Primarily operating in the area of space near the Moon, NASA will advance and validate capabilities required for humans to live and work at distances much farther away from our home planet, such as at Mars. With the Space Launch System, Orion crewed spacecraft, and revitalized space launch complex, NASA has made significant advancements in our transportation capabilities for deep space exploration.

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8 NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER 9 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EARTH RELIANT

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) is a blueprint for global cooperation and scientific advancements, a destination for growing a commercial marketplace in low-Earth orbit, and a test bed for demonstrating new technologies. It is the springboard to NASA’s next great leap in Benefits for Humanity exploration, including future missions to an asteroid and Mars. The national lab offers a unique environment to perform research that allows the development not just of pharmaceuticals, but also better product development across a wide range of industries that may not have For more information about the project otherwise realized the benefits of using the space station for development process and conducting research research. This research could have profound impacts for life on on the ISS, please visit: Earth, while driving the growth of a robust commercial marketplace www.spacestationresearch.com in space.

Space Laboratory Deep Space Exploration Commercial Space Market Global Partnership

In the past 16 years of operation, more than A technology development testbed for deep Growing a commercial marketplace in space. A global partnership model for future exploration 2000 science experiments have been conducted space exploration. beyond Earth. by more than 3000 investigators from 95 The International Space Station facilitates the countries. These experiments are The International Space Station serves as the growth of a robust commercial market in The International Space Station is the blueprint multidisciplinary and include biology and world’s leading laboratory where researchers low-Earth orbit for scientific research, technology for global cooperation – one that enables a biotechnology, Earth and space science conduct cutting edge research and technology development, and human and cargo U.S.-led multinational partnership and advances educational activities, human research, physical development that will enable human and robotic transportation. shared goals in space exploration. sciences, and technology. exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including asteroids and Mars.

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NASA’S COMMERCIAL CREW TRANSPORTATION CAPABILITY (CCTCAP) contracts bring the United States one step closer to launching crew from American soil. Commercial transportation to and from the International Space Station will provide for additional research and discovery on the orbiting laboratory. The station is critical for NASA’s continued research for understanding and overcoming the challenges ERIC BOE BOB BEHNKEN SUNI WILLIAMS of long-duration spaceflight DOUG HURLEY necessary for the journey to Mars.

GOAL: SAFETY: MULTIPLE CONTRACT CONTRACT TERMS: AWARDS: Commercial Crew Astronauts American Ingenuity: Facilitate the Crew safety is Competition results FAR-based firm, Lowering development of U.S. paramount. in most cost-effective fixed-price contracts; NASA selected four astronauts in July 2015 to work with Returning these launches to the cost of commercial crew space Boeing and SpaceX as they finalize the designs of their crew American soil has significant Robust NASA insight into and safe systems both providers must access to space transportation systems and provides critical meet the same NASA transportation systems. economic benefits, with more safety and performance. than 1,000 suppliers working and enhancing the to provide safe, reliable, redundancy. requirements. U.S. economy cost-effective access across nearly every state on to and from the station Focus on Science: commercial crew spacecraft systems. and low-Earth orbit from The commercial carriers will enable the U.S. America. to expand the ISS crew to 7 astronauts and Transport pressurized cosmonauts. An extra person translates to scientific research and 40 additional hours of crew time per week. cargo and increase the This facilitates more research in Earth, space, station crew, enabling physical, and biological sciences to advance twice the amount of scientific knowledge for the benefit of people scientific research to living on Earth. be conducted. By encouraging private companies to provide human transportation 2X MORE services to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA TIME FOR can expand its focus to building spacecraft RESEARCH and rockets for deep space exploration missions.

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Propulsion ualification TO ASPIRE TO MORE. Module arrives at White Sands Test Facility in TO INITIATE THE NEXT GREAT ERA New Mexico.

ORION SPACECRAFT IN HUMAN HISTORY.

Post landing recovery training at Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas.

NASA's Orion spacecraft is the only vehicle designed to transport humans to explore interplanetary destinations, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew, and provide safe re-entry from Vibration evaluation of display visibility in long-duration deep space missions. Houston, Texas. Atop NASA’s Space Launch System, Orion will take us farther than we’ve ever gone before, including to Mars.

NASA’s Journey to Mars travels through Orion’s award-winning Docking hatch egress business partners in 48 states and Puerto Rico. There are more evaluation at the Space than 4,000 people who work on Orion nationwide. Vehicle Mockup and Training Facility in Houston, Texas. Texas is home to more than 100 small and large businesses that have contributed to the Orion Program since its inception. The Orion program is managed out of NASA’s Johnson Space Center NASA and its prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, are (JSC) in Houston. JSC is responsible approaching the end of Orion’s development phase, having for training the astronaut crew and successfully tackled many of the toughest engineering recovery teams, developing and challenges associated with human exploration of deep space. testing Orion’s parachute and crew The team remains on track for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) in systems and managing propulsion Orion parachute drop 2018 and Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the first crewed flight, testing at the White Sands Test tests at Army Yuma Proving Ground in as early as 2021. Facility in New Mexico. Arizona. SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM

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JOHNSON SPACE CENTER'S OFFICE OF EDUCATION offers Internships provide hands-on, mentored experiences opportunities to inspire and engage the next generation of Texas’ STEM ON STATION aligned with student academic pursuits in science, STEM workforce through numerous programs and initiatives. engineering, communications, education and business . STEM ON STATION is an online classroom celebrating the International Space Station. Educators can learn how to bring Space into the classroom, with lesson plans, videos, and up to the minute education news.

• 404,237 page views on the STEM on Station Educator Professional website Development HIGH SCHOOL AEROSPACE SCHOLARS • 13 in-flight education downlinks reaching over650 Our professional development K-12, pre-service and educators and 7,000 students informal educators. JSC integrates NASA missions, Texas Aerospace Scholars (TAS) encourages • STEM on Station hands-on kits engaged over education resources, and NASA-unique facilities to Texas students to explore the unlimited 100,000 students and educators provide high-quality STEM content and hands-on learning career possibilities in STEM with space exploration • Partnered with Texas Instruments to deliver mISSion experiences. Educators return to their classrooms as its central theme. In 2016, the program imaginaTIon, a STEM-based design challenge equipped with real-world experiences relevant to NASA engaged 725 Texas high school students in a related to the One Year Mission content and a readiness to teach and engage their students in the STEM. 16-week interactive online course. • Additional collaborations with TIME For Kids, 4-H/ 261 of those students visited JSC for a NIFA, Texas State University/Educator Professional week-long summer experience. Development Collaborative, LEGO and Google

Institutional Engagement

Through partnerships with NASA Minority University Research and Education Project and NASA Human NASA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AEROSPACE SCHOLARS Exploration Operations Mission Directorate, 29 universities (44% Minority Serving Institutions) engaged NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars more than 200 undergraduates in unique experiential expanded, making 2016 the biggest year ever. learning opportunities spanning a variety of NASA mission-relevant areas. 754 online students reached

students across the country provided with an 541 intensive 4-day residential experience at eight NASA centers. STEM Engagement of the students came from Minority Serving 72% Institutions and represent 192 community Designed to increase students' interest and involvement colleges in 37 states. Jimmy Lazo’s road to NASA involved multiple educational in STEM, improve their ability to participate in STEM opportunities at Johnson Space Center, including his team’s studies and careers, and enhance their understanding of Over 26 NCAS alumni completed summer internships participation in Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design the value of STEM in their lives. across the agency. Teams (Micro-g NExT).

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