Many of Houston’s resources within the Space Community are in close proximity to one another. This list includes Houston Spaceport, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA JSC Exploration Park, Texas A&M Space Institute and Space Center Houston. All locations are close to critical transportation infrastructure, including railways, highways, waterways and airports. 

"Our goal at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for the next 60 years is to make Texas a global hub of human exploration, such that any country or entity that desires to work in low earth orbit, around the moon, on the surface, further in the cosmos, can begin their next giant leap right here in Space City." 

- Vanessa Wyche, Director, Johnson Space Center

Since NASA established the Johnson Space Center in Houston more than 50 years ago, Texas has served as the world’s hub for human space exploration. NASA’s continued operations, operating the International Space Station and preparing to send humans to the Moon and Mars, have spurred a commercial space economy that is creating jobs and bringing new and exciting businesses to our state.

Each year, NASA spends more than $2.5 billion in Texas. This includes $442 million spent with small businesses, $105 million with women-owned businesses, $67 million with Nonprofits and Universities, $64 million with Hispanic owned businesses, $34 million with veteran owned businesses, and $58 million with minority owned businesses. Nationally, NASA’s missions lead to $71 billion in annual spending and create more than 339,000 jobs.

NASA’s lead center for:

• Life sciences research and application
• Astronaut selection and training
• Spaceflight Mission Control and ISS operations
• Spaceflight program management
• Large-scale spacecraft development
• Robotics and artificial intelligence

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240-acre development adjacent to NASA's Johnson Space Center. 

• American Center of Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI), exclusive developer of 207 acres for the next generation of human spaceflight innovation. 
• Home to the Texas A&M Space Institute, a facility dedicated to human spaceflight research that includes the world's largest climate-controlled lunar and Mars scape. 

For nearly a decade, the Houston Spaceport has been a campus where ideas and technology come together to solve critical problems at the cutting edge of human achievement. 

It starts with its location - in the country’s fourth largest city, making it unique among other federally licensed spaceports offering unprecedented access to a thriving Aerospace community. As the world’s first truly urban commercial Spaceport, Houston Spaceport offers unmatched business opportunities for Aerospace and Aviation companies of any size. The Spaceport is on the southeast side of Ellington Airport, a mixed-use, general aviation airport with nearly 400 acres of limitless potential for expansion and development. 

To date, the Houston Spaceport has hosted some of the most groundbreaking achievements in Aerospace and Aviation, including: 

• Designing, building, and testing the world’s first successful commercial lunar lander (Intuitive Machines). 

• The world’s first detonation of room temperature storable liquid fuels in a rotating detonation rocket engine (Venus Aerospace). 

• Construction of the world’s first and only commercial space station assembly facility (Axiom Space).  

• Designing and testing the world’s first commercially available EVA suit (Collins Aerospace). 

We have a proven track record of making the leasing process easy and effective: 

• ZERO property taxes on ground leases.   

• Attractive incentive packages tailored to your business’s specific needs.   

• The permit process is simple and fast because the Houston Spaceport is a permit issuer (Houston Airport System).   

• Shovel-ready sites allow tenants to build in any configuration they require.