Explore the history of NASA's Johnson Space Center through these links to the past. The available sites offer access for researchers, including oral history transcripts, NASA archives, and hundreds of the agency's history-related sites. Only a few months after President John F. Kennedy's proclamation in 1961 that the U.S. would send a man to the Moon by the end of the decade, NASA announced Houston would be the site of a new center dedicated to achieving that goal. Established in 1996, the goal of the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project was to capture history from the individuals who first provided the country and the world with an avenue to space and the Moon. Read more about the Johnson Space Center Directors, the men and women who led NASA's Houston center, the home of Mission Control and astronaut training, through the most challenging events in human spaceflight history. Born in 1958 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, the agency is spread across the country and comprised of multiple centers and facilities specializing in all aspects of spaceflight. The public search option for the NASA Archive holdings, including the Johnson Space Center Roundups, Mission Transcripts, and News Releases will be available soon! For more information or questions about the Johnson collection, contact [email protected]. The Mission Transcript Collection includes scanned transcripts from recorded air-to-ground transmissions and from tapes recording the words of the astronauts while onboard the Mercury through Apollo missions. Related resources and publications from the NASA History Office include: Other Research Resources, NASA Oral Histories, NASA History Series, and NASA History News and Notes.