page_title: NASA facilities
section_title: Transferred from the Army
hierarchical_section_title: NASA facilities / List of field centers / Transferred from the Army
caption_attribution_description: English: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the upper Arroyo Seco and San Gabriel Mountains foothills, of Pasadena and Altadena, Southern California. Français&#160;: Vue aérienne du site du JPL en Californie, licence&#160;: domaine public, origine&#160;: [1] Italiano: Il complesso del JPL, caricata da en:wiki presa dal Jpl's web site , informazioni sul copyright qui Português: Complexo do JPL
context_page_description: There are NASA facilities across the United States and around the world. NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC provides overall guidance and political leadership to the agency. There are 10 NASA field centers, which provide leadership for and execution of NASA's work. All other facilities fall under the leadership of at least one of these field centers. Some facilities serve more than one application for historic or administrative reasons. NASA has used or supported various observatories and telescopes, and an example of this is the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. In 2013 a NASA Office of the Inspector General's Report recommended a Base Realignment and Closure Commission style organization to consolidate NASA's little used facilities. The OIG determined at least 33 of NASA's 155 facilities were underutilized.
context_section_description: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, CA,  was, together with ABMA, one of the agencies behind Explorer 1, America's first robotic satellite, and also together with ABMA one of the first agencies to become a part of NASA. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena  on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena.  JPL is managed by the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The Laboratory's primary function is the construction and operation of robotic planetary spacecraft, though it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions.  It is also responsible for operating NASA's Deep Space Network.
  George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama, is one of NASA's largest centers. MSFC is where the Saturn V rocket and Spacelab were developed. Marshall is NASA's lead center for International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; payloads and related crew training; and was the lead for Space Shuttle propulsion and its external tank. From December 1959, it contained the Launch Operations Directorate, which moved to Florida to become the Launch Operations Center on July 1, 1962.
caption: Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California
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