Space Center Houston is the official visitors center of the
Lyndon B. Johnson Space CenterThe Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for human spaceflight activities. The center consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on located in the Bay Area of southeast Houston, Texas...
—the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) center for human spaceflight activities—located in
HoustonHouston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2008 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of...
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Space Center Houston is the official visitors center of the
Lyndon B. Johnson Space CenterThe Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for human spaceflight activities. The center consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on located in the Bay Area of southeast Houston, Texas...
—the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) center for human spaceflight activities—located in
HoustonHouston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2008 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of...
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Space hardware
Space Center Houston is home to space artifacts and hardware including:
Mercury 9 capsule ("Faith 7")
Gemini 5Gemini 5 was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 3rd manned Gemini flight, the 11th manned American flight and the 19th spaceflight of all time .-Crew:...
capsule
Apollo 17Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19. It...
CM
Lunar RoverThe Lunar Roving Vehicle or lunar rover was a 4-wheeled rover used on the Moon during the last three missions of the Apollo program in the early 1970s....
vehicle trainer
SkylabSkylab was the United States' first space station, and the second space station visited by a human crew. It was also the only space station NASA launched alone...
trainer mock up
These artifacts were formerly housed in the Johnson Space Center's Visitor Center.
Attractions
- Martian Matrix/Kid's Space Place, a play place for children 5th grade and younger
- Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth largest defense contractor in the world in 2008, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over 122,000...
Theater, an IMAXIMAX is a motion picture film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
theater that hosts the movies "To Be An Astronaut" and "Inside the Space Station"
- A Tram Tour of NASA, which goes to either Building 30 North and South (old and new Mission Control Center
A Mission Control Center is an entity that manages aerospace vehicle flights. The MCC is often part of a national aerospace agency or a large aerospace company...
s), Building 9 (the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility), and Rocket Park (which contains a Saturn VThe Saturn V was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. In total NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets with no loss of payload. It remains the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a...
rocket among other things).
- Special tours, called Level 9 tours, are given at an extra booking cost, and visit all of the above buildings and other areas such as the Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
- The stand where John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
promised the safe launching to the MoonThe Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is , about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The common centre of mass of the system is located at about —a quarter the Earth's...
, landing on the surface, and return to Earth before the year of 1970 is located inside the Destiny Theater.
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