NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 2006

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The thing about NASA is that it seems more for children nowadays. I don't know what I had in mind when I decided to go visit but children probably weren't on my list. Still, it was a nice educational visit to ease the boredom on a trip to Houston.

While looking around I found a place that let's you touch moon rocks. I stayed there for a couple of minutes just feeling them and taking the moment in. These were moon rocks....from the moon....the same moon you've seen all your life floating up there in the sky! Its like you are touching a piece of another world, touching something that doesn't belong on earth, touching an extra-terrestrial object! But then I remembered touching the meteorites at the Texas Memorial Museum and I realized I had touched things from even farther away. Still, its an odd feeling.

The big rockets were being cleaned so I missed out on those. The most interesting part really was going to see Mission Control. Now the mission control they take you to isn't the original mission control, the one you see in movies like Apollo 13 or Armageddon, but a new very high tech one. There is always someone manning the boards there in case of an emergency.

It would of been cool to suddenly hear, "Houston we have a problem." And then seen red lights flashing and warning bells and people rushing in and out and seen the computer displays of either an inter-galactic alien attack or the whole of the satellite system come crashing down to Earth.

Yeah, NASA was kind of boring.

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Photos

NASA Rockets
Rocket graveyard.

Mission Control
Houston, we have a problem.

Building Hangar
Space Shuttle and Space Station modules being built and tested.

Space Capsule
Just floating in fake space.

Astronauts
Let's go.