Space Center Houston (NASA)

 
25 mi. south-east of Houston, on the west side of Clear Lake, is the Houston Space Center, with the world-famous Mission Control, the monitoring centre for all NASA manned space flights. In the Visitor Orientation Center is a space exhibition, with film shows, models of space capsules, astronauts' rations, samples of moon rock and a variety of objects from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo manned space programmes.

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Visitors can try on astronauts' helmets, steer a spacecraft in the simulator and, in the extensive grounds of the Space Center, wonder at huge space rockets and perhaps meet a real astronaut on his way to the Mission Simulation and Training Facility, where in the course of training he may be hurled around in a centrifuge measuring 100 ft across.
Hours:
April 24 to May 31: 9am-5pm; Sun: 10am-7pm; Sat: 10am-7pm
June 1 to June 30: 10am-7pm
July 1 to July 31: 9am-7pm
August 1 to August 31: 10am-7pm
September 1 to November 30: 10am-5pm; Sun: 10am-6pm; Sat: 10am-6pm
December 1 to April 23: 10am-5pm; Sun: 10am-7pm; Sat: 10am-7pm
Always closed on: Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Parking: Pay

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