Houston - Johnson Space Center

I'm in Houston now, my last stop before moving on the San Francisco/San Jose for some serious shopping. Houston's a big city with everything kinda spread out. One of the main reasons for coming to Houston is to visit the Johnson Space Center, home of Mission Control. You know, the famous line from Apollo 13... "Houston, we have a problem."


JSC is pretty far from downtown Houston. Took over 1 hour on the bus to reach it. The activity center was quite so-so, nothing very special, but I guess the main reason was to visit the actual space center. Went on a 2 hour tour which brought us to the Historic Mission Control (a designated historic monument) where previous Apollo and shuttle missions were controlled from. It's no longer in use. Next stop was a huge hangar where mock-ups of the space station and shuttle were kept for engineers and astronauts to do their training. Final stop was 'Rocket Park', quite a lame name coz it had only two rockets and some boosters on show. But it was cool to see the actual Saturn V rocket which has been kept there on permanent display.