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| Above, yours truly at the Saturn 5 rocket. |
Our first full day in Houston was spent at the Johnson Space Center where mission control is located for manned space flight missions.
We met with our driver in downtown Houston and took their bus to the space center, which was about 13 miles from downtown Houston.
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| Above, Mitch Geriminsky and I at the Saturn 5 engine on display. |
After arriving, we toured exhibits in the visitor center complex and signed up for the Astronaut Training Facility Tour. The tour was around an hour or so and different buildings and their functions were pointed out by the tour guide.
It was interesting to see the facility for various missions including the Artemis program.
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| Above, inside the astronaut training facility. A Soyuz mock-up is at left. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Following the tour, we were taken to the space park where a building housing one of three Saturn 5 rockets still in existence. The one we saw was from one of several moon missions that were cancelled in the 1970s.
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| Above, an Apollo Lunar Module on display in the main visitor center. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
After returning to the main visitor center, we did look at more exhibits, had coffee and a snack. We also did some shopping in the visitor center's shop. I also got a t-shirt for Greg Lucier for taking care of Sierra at home.
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| Above, the main visitor center building. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
I took many photographs with my Canon camera. I will post those when I return home in New Mexico. These are from my phone camera.
All in all, it was a fun, enjoyable and educational day.
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