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Lyndon B. Johnson: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is in the Houston area. Other places of interest in the state include Big Bend National Park , Guadalupe Mountains National Park , Amistad and Lake Meredith national recreation areas, Padre Island National Seashore, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (see National Parks and Monuments , table), and Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge, winter home of the whooping crane. Austin is the capital; Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio are the largest cities.
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Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, was established in 1961, and from the Gemini, Apollo and Skylab projects to today's Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs, the Center continues to lead NASA's efforts in human space exploration. Johnson Space Center was born out of the early space program’s need for facilities to house the Space Task Group (STG), which was formed with Langley engineers to conduct the Apollo Project. With the daunting task outlined by President John F. Kennedy to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, the STG needed new quarters with test facilities and research laboratories suitable to mount an expedition to the Moon. The NASA installation was originally designated the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), and from its inception, it was to be the lead center for U.S. space missions involving astronauts. It was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center on August 27, 1973.
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The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, was renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and Texas created a legal state holiday to be observed on August 27 to mark LBJ's birthday. It is known as Lyndon Baines Johnson Day. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac was dedicated on September 27, 1974.
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