Space Center Houston

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Space Center Houston, located in Houston, Texas, is the official visitors center of the Johnson Space Center.

[edit] Space hardware

Space Center Houston is home to space artifacts and hardware including:

• Mercury 9 capsule
• Gemini V capsule
• Apollo 17 CM
• Lunar Rover vehicle trainer
• Skylab trainer mock up

[edit] 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 mock up Facility), and Rocket Park (which contains a Saturn V 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.

[edit] External links

• Space Center Houston Official Site
• Johnson Space Center Official Site