welcome back if you were looking for a
fun summer in the city we've got you
covered with Houston's summer fun passes
they are a great way to explore the city
on a discount and the passes include all
kinds of different attractions you can
find in our city I've used them this
summer we sent reporter Stephanie
Gonzalez around town to check out each
attraction and on our last stop Steph
went to Space Center Houston perfect
timing because today is national moon
day
let's take a look our summer in the city
series ends with Space Center Houston
talk to us about Space Center Houston
because this is such a neat spot you
guys have a little bit of everything
well Space Center Houston is first and
foremost the official Visitor Center
NASA Johnson Space Center we're a
non-profit educational foundation we
have over 400 things to see and do while
you're here including many different
exhibits artifacts shows that we put on
talking about space exploration and it's
all about getting people more informed
for public engagement that I'm learning
a little bit more about space
exploration
but also our educational vision that we
have in our mission here too
allow others anybody to come here to be
able to learn about space and science
become more informed and help to be able
to understand more about their life but
now is to get affected my space where
are three spots that people can come
visit this summer well we're actually
standing in one spot right now I saw a
traveling exhibit areas this is above
and beyond that was brought here by the
Boeing Company and Coca Cola's this
summer sponsor for it here and there's
lots of things that you can do here join
up in a space elevator but also how to
how to fly like you're luckier in space
or traveling around and all the
different aspects of what it takes to go
in both air in space but also with the
traveling through space and how we're
going to get to different destinations
so that's one spot mission marks is
another spot that we have here as well
it touched about all the challenges that
that we have and going to Mars but
what's the great interest medium to go
there so we have some of the mock-ups of
vehicles that will be taking us to and
around that area but also the all the
things that they must overcome
whether it be radiation or whether it be
other aspects from a human physiology
aspect that they need to overcome then
artifactory which has a lot of our early
spacecraft we have both a flown Gemini
spacecraft Mercury and the Apollo 17
command module was his last spacecraft
in the mission that took us to the moon
and so we're very excited how they have
all those here along with the
independence Plaza which is also another
part of having the shuttle carrier
aircraft and on top of it has an orbit
of replicas just a 1/2 flew around order
orbiter sent during the space shuttle
program do you have a favorite spot here
my favorite spot I I would say would be
the the mission Mars area it is I think
it talks more about where NASA is going
long-term first they want to go back to
the to the moon and then we're going to
go on to Mars something that I'm so
excited to do is you can touch the Moon
or Mars here so can you explain that to
us yes we actually have two different
things that you can touch here one is a
a rock that actually was from the moon
that came back on one of the Apollo
flights there's a moon rock then this
into mission Mars area and so you can go
over and touch that and that's part of
our collection as well just scratch that
off your bucket list yes all in one
visit and of course I had to check out a
few of their challenges
you
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my planet Mars
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I'm about to touch Mars and the moon if
you know me you know that I love the
moon I'm obsessed and we can touch it
here so
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if you want to visit Space Center
Houston this summer just check out the
Houston summer City Pass which is
available all summer long this allows
people to save money but I'll sort of be
able to go enjoy all the different
institutions and there's many of them
here in the Houston area so it's a great
opportunity for people to be able to buy
those and save money at the same time
for their entire family and there you
have it we hope you enjoyed our
somewhere in the city series and also
hope to see you around each town this
summer so cool Oh looks like she had fun
by the way now is the moment we have all
been waiting for it is now time to
announce the winner of our City Pass
giveaway the winner is going to receive
a four pack of passes to a variety of
Houston area attractions including Space
Center Houston the downtown aquarium the
Houston Museum of Natural Science and
much much more
drumroll we need our winner thank you
Miss Elizabeth she really was there okay
exciting and the passes go - we don't
say that in the past so - la-la-land
Emma Stone no just kidding last year
Tiffany Durham you are and congrats to
all of you who entered have fun out
there