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|  | | Moving in. Finish work, Mission Control first floor computer area, Building 30, 1964. Courtesy Johnson Space Center Archives, Woodson Research Center, Rice University. |
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It is always changing. Missions are scrapped, budgets are cut, new ideas replace old. In response, the campus is renovated, reconfigured, expanded, reinhabited. When a project is complete, its real estate is claimed for the next experiment. When more space is needed, it is enclosed.
The results are practical: buildings whose overall configurations have little to do with the ways they are currently used.
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 | | | A round building, built for a centrifuge. The Flight Acceleration Facility, built for Apollo astronauts, simulated g-forces experienced during space flight, 1966. Astronauts sat in the three-seat gondola, and were swung around by the 50-foot arm. Courtesy NASA. |
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| | The centrifuge replaced by a pool. Building 29, now home to the WETF (Weightless Environment Training Facility), 1996. Photo by the author. | |
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