Space Center Houston is a place of edu-tainment, which is part of a training center, research, and mission control center spacecraft, The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center - NASA. Centre visit Johnson Space Center area of more than 16,000 square meters was opened since 1992. By paying U.S. $ 20.95 for adults, or U.S. $ 16.95 for children (ages 4-11 years), you can enjoy the many attractions, shows, and interactive games that can be enjoyed by all people, both children and adults.
At the Space Center Theater, visitors were treated to a short film about the ins and outs of the lives of astronauts since receiving notification of acceptance letter training programs to run their first mission. Here are shown the commitment and the risks they face as the space shuttle crew. Not everyone can become a cosmonaut. They are people with higher education options, and must have physical and psychological condition of the prime.
Just outside the Space Center Theater, there are Astronaut Space Suit Gallery. Contains a collection of clothes from the first cosmonaut to fly humans into space. Some of them are owned by the astronaut Pete Conrad's spacesuit (the third person to walk on the moon on Apollo missions 12), ejection suit owned by John Young (astronaut who landed on the moon on Apollo missions 16), belonging flightsuit Judith Resnik (astronaut woman who died in the launch Challenger during its mission in 1986, and many more.
Want to feel the sensation at the launch of the space shuttle? Blast Off Theater is the place. Here you will also be given an explanation of the mission being undertaken by NASA today, and details about the exploration of Mars. In addition, there is also the Living in Space, a show about the daily activities of the astronauts inside the space shuttle. How do they eat, sleep, or exercise in place of zero gravity by hilariously demonstrated by a staff of NASA. Visitors can participate in the show.
With the NASA Tram Tour, you will be invited to see the building Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center - NASA, where the astronauts go through training before performing missions into space, such as basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, the science of navigation, astronomy and others to physical training such as how to deal with emergencies related to atmospheric pressure and zero gravity. In this place also built several spacecraft mockup to facilitate training.
Then, you'll be taken to the historic space mission control center and the current mission control centers, control centers manned spacecraft since the project man Gemini IV in 1965. In this place still stored equipment and computer equipment used at that time. Finally, you can watch a giant rocket, Saturn V, in Rocket Park is supposed to be launched on the mission of Apollo 18. However, the mission was canceled due to lack of funding.
If you are traveling with children, do not worry because there is a themed playground for astronauts and outer space, The Kids Place. In the area of Space Center Houston is also a cafeteria there is space themed, Zero-G Diner. For those of you who want to buy souvenirs, there are many interesting things that you can find in the Space Trader, ranging from reading glasses NASA to be astronauts space food ice cream. You are interested to try it?
