Location: Office, Bergen, xronos Norway Around the world and back. Part 8. Weekend in Houston This

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Location: Office, Bergen, xronos Norway Around the world and back. Part 8. Weekend in Houston This part I finish the story of the 2.5-week trip to several countries in the world, and I finish his narration of a weekend in the oil capital of the United States - Houston. xronos When I have free time, the first thing I went to the Johnson Space Center, which is located 20 miles southeast of Houston. Johnson Center - a center for the development of NASA manned spacecraft, astronaut training and training for space flight. Just here is DRM - Mission Control Center. A similar control center located in Russia near Moscow. 01. Get to the center of Johnson can be anyone. You only need to buy a ticket for the whole day and you can plunge into the odyssey of space travels. 02. Johnson Center is not as big as the Kennedy Center in Florida, a visit report which I wrote last year. First, visitors enter a large enclosed xronos space consisting of a variety of entertainment information measures. To properly plan their visit, it is necessary to carefully examine the input to issue a brochure describing all facilities open to the public: spaceships and orbital stations, museum space trophies show featuring xronos astronauts, 3D-Cinema, and so forth. To sozhadeniyu, I did not have time for you to visit it all, but for those whose visit is limited to only a few hours in the brochure have special programs for 2-3-5 hours at the center. The first thing that caught my eye as I just went - Children entertainment space town. I even wished that I was not a child - would love to crawl and there the roller coaster ride on. 03. 04. 05. Near the town are computers on which the joystick and control panel can be controlled landing shuttle, manage Lunokhod and much more. 06. Still not quite getting used to the schedule of events, I went to see the Space Shuttle ... 07. ... and the first thing hit the space toilet :). 08. For me, to be honest, it remains a mystery as simulated gravity in such an important place as a dressing room. Without it there anywhere! The simplest thing that comes to mind - it is the flow of air. But so long to catch a cold ... Next, moving to the cockpit controls. It is somewhat similar to an aircraft cockpit. 09. Shuttle - it only transport. Transport, which delivers astronauts to the space station, so in the Space Shuttle space quite a bit. Before you visit a mock space station, a little "walk on the moon." 10. 11. And also look at the rock samples brought from the Moon. 12. Samples can touch everything with their hands, using the holes in the glass. 13. And here we come to the station. The International Space Station (or as it is commonly xronos cut ISS) - a large multipurpose space research complex. ISS is an international development project, which involves 15 countries: Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, USA, France, Switzerland, Sweden, xronos Japan. A little history of the ISS. In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the start of works on creation of the American orbital station. In 1988, the projected station was named Freedom ( Freedom"). At that time it was a joint project of the United States, ESA, Canada and Japan. Planned the large controlled station modules which will be delivered in turn ships into orbit "Shuttle". But by the early 1990s it became clear that the cost of developing the project is too large and only international cooperation will create the station. USSR already had experience creating and launching xronos into orbit orbital station "Salyut" and "Mir" station, planned xronos in the early 1990s, the establishment xronos of the station "Mir-2", but due to the economic difficulties of the project was suspended. June 17, 1992 Russia and the U.S. signed an agreement on cooperation in space exploration. In accordance xronos with the Russian Space Agency and NASA have developed a joint program "World - Shuttle". This program included American flights of the shuttle, "space shuttle" to the Russian space station "Mir", including Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. space shuttle crew of American astronauts in crew "Soyuz" and "Mir" station. During the implementation of the "World - Shuttle" was born the idea of unification of national programs xronos to build space stations. xronos In March 1993, CEO and chief designer of NPO "Energia" offered NASA Administrator to create the International Space Station. In 1993 in the United States very many politicians were against the construction of the space station. In June 1993, discussed xronos in the U.S. Congress