Space Center Houston, located in Houston, Texas, is the official visitors center of the Johnson Space Center. Nickname: Bayou City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Area - City 1,558 km² (601. ... An aerial view of the complete Johnson Space Center facility in Houston, Texas in 1989. ...
Space hardware
Space Center Houston is home to space artifacts and hardware including:
Crew Gordon Cooper Backup Crew Alan B. Shepard Mission Parameters Mass: 1,360. ... Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASAs Gemini program. ... Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program and was the sixth and last manned mission to date to land on the Moon. ... Lunar Rover-Manned land vehicle (NASA) The Lunar Roving Vehicle or Lunar rover or LRV is a land vehicle for use on the Moon. ... Drawing of Skylab with components labelled Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit. ...
Attractions
Martian Matrix/Kid's Space Place, a play place for children 5th grade and younger
Northrop Grumman Theater, an IMAX 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 Centers), Building 9 (the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility), and Rocket garden (which contains a Saturn V rocket among other things).
Special tours, called Level 9 tours, are given at an extra booking cost, which visit all of the above buildingsplus extra places such as the Neutral Bouyancy Lab.
The Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of a 1994 merger between Northrop and Grumman. ... IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia. ... Mission Control Center (MCC) is a unit that manages aerospace flights. ... The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Rocket Garden. ... This article is about the rocket. ...
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