... That those astronauts were a part of MSC in Houston, and that their words and deeds became public through the center's Mission Control and its Public Affairs Office, gave the center a certain centrality in NASA's space programs in the mind of the public and in the estimation of those who worked there. ... MSC managed the engineering design, development, and construction of the spacecraft; supervised the selection and training of the astronauts who flew the craft; and directed spaceflight operations....