Houston: NASA evacuated a building at Johnson Space Centre on Friday after a person with a gun was seen and a gunshot was reportedly fired, a NASA spokeswoman said.
The gunman said to be a contract worker at the space centre.
Space agency spokeswoman Brandi Dean said it was not known if anyone was hurt, but Houston police and NASA security personnel were on the scene.
Space centre security officers and Houston police, including a police commando unit, were dispatched to the building.
Another NASA spokesperson, James Hartfield, said there were gunshots heard in the building, which holds a laboratory where Mission Control is based.
Hartfield said all of the employees that would have been in that building have been evacuated.
There is "extremely tight security" at Johnson Space Center, said Hartfield.
He declined to speculate on how an armed person might have slipped past NASA security.
A local television station, reporting from a helicopter flying over the space centre, showed NASA workers standing outside the building, which is an engineering office known as Building 44.
Police officers could be seen surrounding the building. Johnson Space Centre is home of Mission Control and the training center for NASA's astronaut corps.
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