Marshall Space Flight Center
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The
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (
MSFC), located in
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (
Huntsville postal address), is the
U.S. government's civilian
rocketry and
spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest
NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the
Saturn launch vehicles for the
Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the
Space Shuttle main propulsion and
external tank; payloads and related crew training;
International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; computers, networks, and information management; and the
Space Launch System. Located on the
Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of
General of the Army George C. Marshall.
The center contains the
Huntsville Operations Support Center (
HOSC), also known as the
International Space Station Payload Operations Center. This facility supports ISS launch, payload, and experiment activities at the
Kennedy Space Center. The HOSC also monitors rocket launches from
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station when a Marshall Center payload is on board.
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