National Space Centre Space": the anniversary of the first satellite, Sputnik. National Space Centre The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester. It is located on the north side the city of Leicester, England, next to the River Soar. Many of the exhibits, including upright rockets, are housed in a tower with minimal steel supports and a semi-transparent cladding of ETFE 'pillows' which has become one of Leicester's most recognisable landmarks. The building was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, and it
Francis Johnson (architect) buildings, which was a concern ahead of his time in the 1960s. The archives have been deposited with Hull University Archives at the Hull History Centre. In November 2013 the archives secured an award of £32,729 from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme administered by The National Archives. The project to catalogue and make this material available was started in January 2014 and ran through to August 2015. Francis Johnson (architect) "See Francis Johnston (architect) for Irish architect with a similar name." Francis Frederick Johnson (18 April 1911 – 29 September 1995), was an English architect, born in Bridlington in the