We reach Space Center Houston, which is the tourist gateway to the Johnson Space Center, on our way to Houston.
This place is part theme park, part McDonalds play area, and part a nice museum about manned space flight. It is also the only way you can tour the Johnson Space Center, our main objective.
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| Mission Control - 1969 |
We tour by tram and foot, always escorted, as this is still a functioning center for training astronauts and controlling missions. A highlight is visiting the original mission control room, frozen as it was in 1969, at the time of the first landing on the moon. Goosebumps. The room looks surprisingly small and primitive, with green raster monitors, and rotary dial telephones. I don't know how we did it.
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| Mock-ups for astronaut training and problem resolution. |
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| Saturn V engines |
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| Oddly, Tesas Longhorn on the premises. This one worth over $1M. |
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