NASA's Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston, Texas, has served as the nerve center for American human spaceflight since June 1965. Perhaps the most visible aspect of human spaceflight, the MCC is the familiar scene on television of flight controllers monitoring all aspects of a mission on their consoles, with large screens displaying the location of the spacecraft on a world map. Following the establishment of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), in 1961, and the construction of the new facility, the mission control function shifted from Cape Kennedy in Florida to Houston.

Source: NASA