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| Welcome to Johnson Space Center - Houston Control. | Got here early (8 a.m.) for a special tour. | While waiting for everyone to get started I was able to wonder around and see a few exhibits close up. |
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| The Lunar Lander - Not real since the bottom part was left on the moon and the top shot off in moon orbit on return. | Then the tour started with space history (NASA based). :) | This was an actual used Mercury spacecraft |
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| I was amazed with the scoring on the heat shied from re-entry! Wow!! | Then the Gemini Series... | |
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| Those guys were really packed in there! | Then Apollo.... | |
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| Even Tighter it seems. | A good display showing the moon surface with a Lunar Rover used in practice here on Earth. | |
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| Never thought of it but when told and then reading this, it made sence. The guide said NASA always had stars in the background of this exhibit until an astronaut told them it wasn't realistic. | One of mission control monitors from the Apollo age. These were basically monitors... not computers... the computers were as big as an 18 wheeler in the other room. | |
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| Notice this little guy near the engine ports... find him in the next picture for scale!!! | The new most powerful rocket NASA has ever had to be used with the Artimis project coming up. | Then we got a tram ride over to the Astronaut training Center or SVMF |
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| These are all of the modules connected to the International Space Station. Used for training so new astronauts know their way around. | ||
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| This has been how many NASA missions have visited the ISS so far. | The Space Vehicle Mocup Facility - Training NASA Astronauts on various space equipment | |
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| All of the ISS modules - No astronauts training today - It is Saturday. | The Boeing Starliner | Starlab - private space station modules to be used soon |
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| The Artemis Project - NASA's next to moon and Mars Project - | ||
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| SDTS - This holds various spacecraft and can turn different degrees and pitch to simulate conditions on spacecraft | The Orion Crew module from Space X | From the Training Facility we got the tram to the rocket park. |
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| They had the Mercury Redstone (badly in need of de-mossing!!!) | And the engines from the Saturn V so you could see how big they are | Kinda scaled... |
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| Then on to a giant block long building with a Saturn V seperated into seperate stages for you to see the size. | Stage 1 Engines | |
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| Stage 2 | ||
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| Stage 3 | The LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) fit in that space. | |
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| The top (command module) | I always liked the emergency rocket in case of a messup on liftoff - it took the command module off of the rocket | |
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| They had the plane that ferried the shuttle back to NASA. I liked the missions stamped on the side. | ||
