The MSC is a science operations and analysis service organization for selected NASA Origins Theme projects and the scientists and engineers that use them. The MSC facilitates the timely and successful execution of Origins theme science by providing software infrastructure, science operations, and consulting to Navigator Program projects and their user communities. 

The MSC name is chosen to honor Albert A. Michelson, the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics, and a pioneer in laboratory and astronomical interferometry. 

The MSC is sponsored by NASA's Origins theme and Navigator Program, and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in coordination with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 

Last Updated:
21 Jun 2003