CHAPTER 13: Space Business and JSC ouston and the Texas of the 1980s became something different than they had been in the 1950s, in part because NASA and JSC gave them the opportunity to be different. ... However, when oil prices quickened and the economy improved at the close of that decade, Owen Morris (a former JSC aerospace engineer and a cofounder of Eagle Engineering) recalled that Houston interest in space declined correspondingly. ... That company was itself a NASA/JSC spin-off. ...