We arrived early in the morning, before the opening, and the front of the museum is crowded visitor

During the trip we visited Houston Space Center NASA, visited the Space Museum and Research Campus. The complex is located halfway between Houston and Galveston, the scientific town NASA. Here is their website: www.spacecenter.org
We arrived early in the morning, before the opening, and the front of the museum is crowded visitors: buses dump it all and more of the crowd of children. And one of the crowd of gray bus dumped oldies but cheerfully and old ladies - they walked sedately small group and all photographed on a soap dish.
Our visit consisted of two parts: the Space Museum and the scientific community NASA. Space Museum - a very spacious building with a bunch of interesting pictures of earth things inside! You come, and my head starts pictures of earth to spin - which way to go? Around a whole bunch of fun! All bright, colorful, all flashing and moving!
Brightly lit shed compartment chassis. pictures of earth There is not enough space for a "rabbit"! pictures of earth So who dreamed to fly into space - that's it, the way! In the second photo - a strange flight simulator in the shuttle, where you and the video show and shake accordingly.
Here - this piece of the space station (decommissioned) altered under the stage for stage occurs every half hour lecture "Life in Space" - about the daily lives of the astronauts.
Booth tells about robots in space. In the window - a robot that will soon be tested on a space station. Why would they put on his golden helmet - I do not know, but there is speculation that someone revised series of Transformers :)
There was also a huge children's department with a myriad of fun and games, all sorts of machines and interactive displays ... nothing had, unfortunately: the bell rang and we rushed to the tour of the town of NASA. Here is the last frame of the museum:
And we went on a small platform, stood in line and booted into neat little train, pictures of earth operated by pretty girls in blue overalls (remembered locking of "Chip and Dale" and Kaylee from the TV series "Firefly"):
NASA town is very similar to any American campus - campus or, for example, the campus Google - does not matter. We drive through pictures of earth the streets - and the guide tells us: "Here in this building - explore objects from space, pictures of earth such as soil from the Moon"
We drive to the historic place: building the Mission Control Center. Now this building museum - at the moment the entire U.S. space program pictures of earth is run from the new MCC in Florida. pictures of earth But this "museum" was the brain NASA for almost 30 years! It ran away landing Americans on the moon, for example:
Climbed to the second floor in the hall itself MCC-a. To the ancient desks and computers have clear not admitted. All fenced off by a glass partition and arranged auditorium, where we were shown a 10-minute film about what people worked here and how they - having at hand the terrible ancient computers, pictures of earth each of which is a thousand times weaker than your cell phone - they did their calculations All these flights are possible and even landing on the moon:
In the film, we are told, for example, pictures of earth that fly to the moon - a few days. When landing on the moon was a critical moment: a few seconds longer - and all the fuel for the trip might not be enough. In MCC-e seriously ready to give astronauts command "retreat, come back." So, controlling pictures of earth the action from a distance of astronauts 380,000 miles, performing calculations on the paper, focusing on continuously incoming data, experts in this room, it was decided "ok, plant". Planted. A fuel was still only 17 seconds. That's pictures of earth where they were heroes!
We were led to the current center of testing and development of space technology. You walk, climb to the second floor and walk down the long corridor, and behind the glass - hangar space technology: simple, watch what you want!
But most of all I like fell workshops - here and welding machine and sewing machine, pictures of earth and a heap of wires and electronic equipment, computers, pictures of earth and the crane girder and anything. A liquid nitrogen is needed? Took the bucket and ran into the street!
Spherical top of the fuel tank is covered with rivets and hoses - looks very alien!
Permalink Reply Tatiana May 21, 2013 at 12:26 am
and do not tell me - whether to the center by public bus to get? do not want a car or a taxi to take rentovat. and at what time there is better to come? (Going next Thursday) thanks
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