Visit Johnson Space Center

Occasionally the tour may visit other facilities such as the sonny carter training facility or neutral buoyancy laboratory.

Visit johnson space center. At space center houston visitors can experience space from its compelling future to its exciting present and dramatic past. Go on a guided adventure through the center and get a detailed look at the past present and future of human space exploration. 1 attraction for international visitors and the first smithsonian affiliate in the greater houston area.

With this behind the scenes journey through nasa s johnson space center you may visit the historic mission control center the space vehicle mockup facility or the current mission control center. The nonprofit space museum space center houston is the official visitor center of nasa johnson space center which is home to mission control and astronaut training. Before returning to space center houston you can visit the all new saturn v complex at rocket park.

The center plays a pivotal role in enhancing scientific and technological knowledge to benefit all of humankind. In order to visit johnson space center you must book a tour through space center houston so it s best to plan a visit to both on the same day. What happens at nasa johnson space center.

You could easily spend this long in just space center houston but a six hour day will leave you spaced out. Nasa s johnson space center has served as a hub of human spaceflight activity for more than half a century. Located on 1 600 acres jsc is the training base and home to our nation s astronauts and the site of mission control center where a talented cadre of flight controllers support the work of our women and men in space.

Spaceport u s a kennedy space center kennedy space center fl 32899 0001 phone. 49 95 includes admission to space center houston. The privately operated space center houston.

Discover some of our one of a kind artifacts like the apollo 17 spacecraft and a spacex falcon 9 rocket. Space center houston nasa johnson space center s visitor center and houston s only smithsonian affiliate museum inspires wonder in space exploration. Space center houston is one of the only places on earth where visitors can see astronauts train for missions touch a real moon rock and take a behind the scenes tour of nasa.