SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK: VOLUME IV
NASA RESOURCES 1969-1978

Figure 6-1. NASA Installations, 1969-1978

Installation

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1970

1971

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1974

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1978

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Ames Research Center

Authorized 1939; dedicated June 1944

Electronics Research Center

Established September 1964; disestablished June 1970

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Flight Research Center

Authorized 1952; named NACA High Speed Flight Station and made autonomous July 1954; designated FRC September 1959; renamed DFRC January 1976

Goddard Space Flight Center

Authorized 1958; dedicated March 1961

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Organized in 1944

Kennedy Space Center

Established March 1962; effective July 1962 as Launch Operations Center; redesignated KSC December 1963

Langley Research Center

Authorized 1917; dedicated June 1920

Lewis Research Center

Authorized 1940; groundbreaking January 1941

Manned Spacecraft Center

Established January 1961 as Space Task Group; major occupancy of Clear Lake site February 1964; renamed JSC February 1973

Marshall Space Flight Center

Established March 1960; transfer of personnel from U.S. Army effective July 1960

National Space Technology Laboratories

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Established as an independent NASA field installation June 1974

Space Nuclear Propulsion Office

Established August 1960; renamed Space Nuclear Systems Office in 1970; disestablished in 1973

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Wallops Station

Established under Langley Research Center in 1945; became autonomous May 1959; renamed Wallops Flight Center in 1974


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