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Space Center club has the right stuff At the height of the space race in the early 1960s thousands of aerospace engineers scientists contractors and support crew members flocked to Houston turning 1600 acres of what was mostly cow pasture into the bustling research hub known as the Manned Spacecraft Center now theJohnson Space Center. The transplants needed social connection. They needed an outlet to improve their rapidly growing community. They needed a Rotary club.