Space Center Houston - Part 2

We spent most of Saturday at the NASA center so we are showing a few more pictures of what we experienced:

In one building we walked around a huge Saturn 5 rocket that was about as long as a football field.

This display shows (from left to right) in three sections how mission control has changed from the 1960's to today.

This is actual mission control today that we got to visit from a walkway above.

This is a technician's desk at mission control.  

The desks were rather quiet on a Saturday although the International Space Station was being tracked.

In a huge training building we got to see these simulators that astronauts used to learn and train for space work.

The training was done in what was called the mockup facility.

The NASA Space Center Houston was a fascinating place to spend a day.

We watched most of the movie presentations and took both tram tours.  We came away with a much better understanding of the history and future of the U.S. Space Program.

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