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The most lasting legacy of the U.S. manned space program may turn out to be not its dramatic expansion of mankind's horizons, but rather a series of far more subtle -- and surprisingly unexplored -- changes it signaled in the ways we live life back home.

 
A tour of Johnson Space Center.

 

Below is a map of design strategies employed at Johnson Space Center, headquarters for the manned space program; creatively misinterpreted, they constitute instructions for the invention of a new landscape.
MAP OF JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS

 
Landing site
  Bring space to earth   Divide and simulate   Shelter   Isolate   Build and rebuild   Replace the environment
A blank slate
Top photo: Earth in space, 1969. Courtesy JSC Archives, Woodson Research Center, Rice University.
Map photo: Johnson Space Center from the air, 1989. Courtesy NASA.

 

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