NASA

On the tram at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The building in the background is where....

Mission Control is! I was surprised to find they'd put this area on the tour. Like many other things we've seen on TV this is a lot smaller than it looks. The room is on the third room of the building, the first and second floor containing the computer used to run the operation. That was a 2 megabyte computer.

The following photos are from the Research and Development area.

Can you see the figure above on the right side of the photo? Behind the low black wall with a gold helmet and white shoulder? It's a robot! This one is a torso with arms mounted on a four wheel cart.

If you click on the above photo you may be able to see the workers. These are the fittings between a space shuttle and a docking station. It seems a good idea to make sure they'll fit before you actually have to use them.

The rocket display building. As we arrived our guide suggested we look at the rockets outside first.

  

These things are amazingly small. The capsule on top is barely large enough to hold an adult.

This rocket larger but still not really impressive.

Then we went in the building..........

OH MY GOD!!!

The entire building holds one rocket - the Saturn V

About halfway down the rocket.

Finally, the top of the rocket and the nose.

Coen checks out the cockpit of the space shuttle.

And right next to the Saturn V exhibit?

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That's right!

The Longhorn exhibit!

It might be NASA

but it's still Texas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!