NASA Space Center in Houston
NASA Space Center - Houston TX | 2/23/22
While we were in Galveston we decided to visit NASA Space Center in Houston. It was a great day and we enjoyed the museum and tour. The Space Center is where all the astronauts have trained all the way back to the first Mercury and Gemini missions which lead to the Apollo missions to the moon and eventually the Space Shuttle Program. The facility is massive - Over 1300 acres. The museum is 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) and displays over 400 space artifacts, including the Mercury 9, Gemini 5, and Apollo 17 space capsules.
The Apollo 17 Command module flown by Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, along with a biological contingent of five mice, orbited the Moon a record 75 times in 1971 during the last crewed Moon mission.
There are eight registered Texas Longhorn trophy steers that have made Johnson Space Center their home for the duration of their life.
Apollo Lunar Module (LEM)
A flown SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exhibit is now on display at the Space Center.
The Saturn V heavy launch vehicle was the highlight of the day! It was enormous to put it mildly. with a Height of 363.0 ft (110.6 m) and Diameter of 33.0 ft (10.1 m). It was laying on its side in a specially built custom building for viewing.
We took a tram to the astronaut training facility on the other side of the complex.
There is a full size low fidelity mockup of the ISS (International Space Station) for training purposes at the center.
astronaut craft table
Orion (officially Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a class of partially reusable crewed spacecraft to be used in NASA's Artemis program.
Lithium Hydroxide Canister - Apollo 13. This is the actual canister the engineers at ground control assembled for the Apollo 13 crew to duplicate.
Some actual moon rocks from the Apollo missions.
Remember Skylab? There was a full training version on display at the center.
The space shuttle that is attached to the 747 is the Space Shuttle Independence, formerly known as Explorer, it is a full-scale, high-fidelity replica of the Space Shuttle.
you can follow the progress of the Valkyrie robot at #NASAValkyrie
