Space Flight Operations Facility
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Map
Coordinates:
+34.20115, -118.1745034°12'04" N, 118°10'28" W
Quadrangle map:Pasadena
Description
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been the primary NASA center for the unmanned exploration of the planets. The Space Flight Operations Facility (1963) is the hub of the communications network through which NASA controls its unmanned spacecraft flying in deep space. -- National Historic Landmark statement of significance, October 3, 1985
National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1985
- Reference number
- 85002814
- Areas of significance
- Community Planning and Development; Other; Engineering
- Level of significance
- National
- Evaluation criteria
- A - Event; C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic functions
- Air-related; Research facility
- Current functions
- Air-related; Research facility
- Periods of significance
- 1950-1974; 1975-2000
- Significant years
- 1963; 1985