Johnson died in January 1973. A month later, the U.S. Senate voted to change the name from the Manned Spacecraft Center to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

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Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams will be at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday to talk about their mission and their extended stay at the ...

On July 19, NASA held a ceremony in Houston at the location formally known as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center to honor the women who assisted with the Apollo 11 mission, which led to Neil A ...

March 13, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson, center, and Alabama Gov. George Wallace (second left) are surrounded by reporters in the White House after meeting to discuss events in Selma, Ala.

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963; Johnson ran in his own right in 1964, winning in a landslide.

SoHo Playhouse will present the return engagement of A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First, which begins previews tonight! Learn more here!

When Sally Ride arrived at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1978, there were approximately 4,000 technical employees working there. Want to guess how many were men? If you said 3,996 ...

Named for its co-founder Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is the place to visit if you're a flower enthusiast. The ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...

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