NASA Temporary Headquarters (1961)

Duration: 0:24

Year Published: 1961

Sound: silent

Description: This news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on October 5, 1961, shows NASA personnel moving into their temporary headquarters in Houston. In 1961, the agency’s selection team chose Houston as the location for the Manned Spacecraft Center (now known as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), which opened in 1963.