Good morning! Look at where I am today!
This is the main attraction in Houston
This is Space Center Houston,
which is the visitor's center
for NASA's Johnson Space Center
From here they monitored several important missions,
like the missions to the moon
And also today this is where all the activities in the
International Space Station are monitored
This facility here was used
for training in the 70's
to prepare astronauts for their work at Skylab
Skylab was America's first space station
With microgravity it doesn't make a difference
if they're sideways, upside down,...
Here for example, look at how they used to shower
Astronaut food here... Look at that!
Fettuccine, rice,... And instructions to prepare
Here there are 3 real spacecrafts
they went to space in different missions
That's a real piece of the moon!
It was brought back to Earth in 1972
It is so smooth!
But actually it stayed like this and acquired this color
because of so many people touching it over the years
NASA already had several missions to space
And in many they used the space shuttle
just like that one of top
That's a replica but the one in the bottom
was indeed used to transport the space shuttles
It looks like a plane, huh?
That's because it is!
It's indeed a modified Boeing 747
The only thing that they maintained here
from the original plane
was the first class seating
Here you catch this tram that brings you to
Johnson Space Center, right beside
This is the real thing, you know?
One of the NASA facilities in the U.S.
This is where the real training occurs
This is so gigantic! You have no idea!
Only being here to understand
This is the largest rocket built
at the time of the historical missions to the moon
in the 60's and 70's
"Houston, we have a problem"
Remember that from the movie?
They were supposedly talking to people in this room
And this area here...
This was the VIP seating
"Okay! We're putting it in the bottle!"
"We put the balloon on top and..."
"You may clap your hands!"
Here at the presentations you learn
some very interesting things as well
For example, water is very precious and rare
Then they need to recycle even the urine
Also the lack of gravity damages the muscles
So the astronauts must exercise
at least 2 hours every day
"The Expedition 50 crew
that's on board the station right now
they exercise with similar equipment"
There are so many great things to do here!
The presentations, the simulators,
the tram tours inside the NASA facilities as well...
that the ideal would be for you to plan ahead
and spend the whole day here
Space Center Houston is located
about 30 minutes from downtown Houston
towards the Gulf of Mexico
Galveston is about 40 minutes from here
but this time we're actually going
somewhere else nearby
that also seems to be is very interesting:
Kemah Boardwalk
Here at the Kemah Boardwalk
you find everything you'd expect
a theme park, restaurants, stores,...
Normally it's not this quiet
But today it is very cold and it's a Monday
Originally we had planned to go back to Houston
and visit some museums
But it's impossible!
We spent basically the whole day
at the NASA Space Center
So see the museums tomorrow
Now we just need to go back to the hotel
and have a really hot shower!
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