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NASA chose Houston for its Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) in 1961, and Mission Control has run crewed flights from Houston since Gemini 4 in 1965. Alongside JSC, the Houston Spaceport at Ellington hosts a growing commercial space ecosystem; the Greater Houston Partnership counts 44,600 aerospace and aviation employees in the region (Houston Facts 2025).
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Home of Mission Control, astronaut training, and the International Space Station program office
FAA-licensed commercial spaceport at Ellington Airport, supporting horizontal launch operations
Building a commercial space station, headquarters at the Houston Spaceport
Lunar lander company that achieved the first commercial Moon landing (IM-1) in 2024
In-space services and commercial space station development (Starlab)
| Company | Focus Area | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Axiom Space | Commercial space station | View profile |
| Intuitive Machines | Lunar landers and services | View profile |
| Nanoracks (Voyager Technologies) | In-space services | No profile yet |
| Amentum (formerly Jacobs' government services business) | NASA JSC engineering support (JETS II contract) | No profile yet |
| KBR | Mission operations support | No profile yet |
| Boeing (Houston office) | Starliner, ISS operations | View profile |
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Aerospace Companies: 500+ (aerospace and aviation companies and institutions). Source: wpb.houston.org.
Key facilities include NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston Spaceport, Axiom Space HQ. Houston is a major hub for government space programs.
Typical roles include Flight Controller, Systems Engineer, Mission Operations, Propulsion Engineer, Software Engineer. Current openings are on the SpaceNexus jobs board, synced daily from employers' own careers pages.
Home to NASA Johnson Space Center (site chosen in 1961) and Mission Control (crewed flights controlled from Houston since 1965). Growing commercial space hub with Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines, and 500+ aerospace and aviation companies and institutions (Greater Houston Partnership).
Facts on this page were checked against these pages on October 10, 2026. Figures without a named source were removed.
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