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| The control center of the rockets to the moon. |
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| You may remember this from TV |
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| Sometimes the Shuttle needed a piggy back. |
We are at the Houston Hobby Airport on Tuesday - getting ready to fly home.
We spent Monday visiting the Johnson Space Center - the headquarters of NASA - the US Space Program. They never launched rockets from here. The headquarters was placed here to appease the political ambitions of Lyndon Johnson. He was John Kennedy's Vice President during the time we launched our quest for the moon. All rockets were launched from Cape Canaveral Florida.
Rice University donated 1000 acres to be used as the campus for the training facility. Astronauts were trained here. It is a working campus - presently they train for the Orion mission back to the Moon and Mars.
We took the tram tour and visited the training building - the original Mission Control Center - the static display of a Saturn V Rocket - and finally a Space Shuttle carried on top of a Boeing 747.
We have had a great 5 days of weather - in the 60s and 70s in the day. One day - Saturday - we had winds making it very cold. No rain.
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| The Lunar Module was for moon landing |
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| Chris Kraft Mission Control |
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| Old computer monitors and cigarettes |
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| Saturn 5 Rocket 1969 Rocket to Moon |
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| Cattle on the Johnson Campus |
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| Judy Resnik - look her up - amazing woman. |
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| Inside the shuttle cargo bay |
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| You can go in both crafts. |
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| Tram tour |
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| 363 foot Saturn V Rocket |
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| Astronaut training building |
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| Traning |
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| Orion will go to Mars - training now |
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| Spare parts |
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| Five big Saturn 5 engines |
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| Third stage |
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| Apollo 13 famous words |
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| Touching a real moon rock. |
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| Entrance to JSC |
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| Astrodome from highway home |
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