Marshall Space Flight Center
Sign in to saveAlso known as MSFC, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center
Key facts
- Formed
- July 1, 1960
- Preceding agency
- Redstone Arsenal
- Jurisdiction
- U.S. federal government
- Employees
- 6,000, including 2,300 civil servants
- Annual budget
- $2 Billion
- Agency executive
- Rae Ann Meyer, Acting Center Director
- Parent agency
- NASA
- Website
- nasa .gov /marshall /
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Facility, Funder
- Founded
- 1960
- Location
- Redstone Arsenal, United States
- Also known as
- MSFC
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space center
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Madison County
- Elevation
- 178
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Headquarters
- Redstone Arsenal
- Parent organization
- NASA
- Operator
- NASA
- Official website
- www.nasa.gov/marshall
- Image
- Msfc aerial view.jpg
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- Commons category
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- topic's main category
- Category:Marshall Space Flight Center
- inception
- 1960-07-01
- social media followers
- 144000
- short name
- MSFC
- has works in the collection
- U.S. Space & Rocket Center
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Encyclopedic overview
The Marshall Space Flight Center (officially the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center; MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; computers, networks, and information management; and the Space Launch System. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George C. Marshall.
The center contains the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC), also known as the International Space Station Payload Operations Center. This facility supports ISS launch, payload, and experiment activities at the Kennedy Space Center. The HOSC also monitors rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station when a Marshall Center payload is on board.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marshall Space Flight Center” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.