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My Visit to the Space Shuttle Endeavour
My Visit to the Space Shuttle Endeavour
Over Christmas Break 2012, my wife and I visited the California ScienCenter in Los Angeles. The Center is the permanent home for the Space Shuttle Endeavour. You can see it up close, walk all around it, and even underneath it! It's really cool. If you're ever in Los Angeles, you should go see the center and the shuttle.
For more information on the California ScienCenter, click on the photo!
Space Shuttle Endeavour was flown over Community Outreach Academy on its way to the California ScienCenter on September 21, 2012!
Space Shuttle Endeavour was flown over Community Outreach Academy on its way to the California ScienCenter on September 21, 2012!
SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR'S ROCKET ENGINES
SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR'S ROCKET ENGINES
Space Shuttle Endeavour's Rocket Engines are HUGE!
Space Shuttle Endeavour's Rocket Engines are HUGE!
Massive thrust power to get the shuttle into outer space!
Massive thrust power to get the shuttle into outer space!
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour
The Shuttle Endeavour is in a large building located next to the Los Angeles Coliseum!
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour
You get to walk all around the shuttle and even under it too!
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour
What an amazing exhibit to see!
My visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
My visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
June 2019
June 2019
I've also visited the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and there they have a replica of a space shuttle on a NASA jet that you can walk through!
This is what the cockpit of a space shuttle looks like to its astronaut pilots! This replica was used for astronaut training!
At the Johnson Space Center, you get to see one of the Mission Control rooms where they monitor ALL NASA space missions!
The Johnson Space Center also has a full-sized Saturn V rocket...the exact kind that took astronauts to the moon! This one was, at one time, ready to be launched into space!
And, the Johnson Space Center also had a large moon rock that you could actually touch!
The Johnson Space Center is a phenomenal place to visit. If you're ever in the Houston area...GO SEE IT!!
My Visit to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama - November 2019
My Visit to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama - November 2019
I've also had the opportunity to visit the Mashall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama - where Saturn V Rocket inventor, Wernher Von Braun had his office!
They have a replica Moon Rover you can sit in!
You can "dress up" in a space suit!
In their Rocket Park, they have a replica Space Shuttle on top of an ACTUAL fuel tank and booster rockets!
Inside their artifact building, they also have a full-size Saturn V Rocket. This one of only THREE facilities that still have a Saturn V Rocket. Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX and Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL are the other two.
I even got to spend some time talking with four NASA engineers who worked on the Saturn V rocket! THAT WAS AWESOME!!
Here's a replica of the Mercury Space Capsule!
This is Wernher Von Braun's office that he had at the Marshall Space Flight Center. He had a model of every rocket he helped design in his office! The Saturn V model was so tall, he had to remove a ceiling panel to display it!
There are SO MANY artifacts in this museum, it's amazing! This is the Command Module from Apollo 16!
Outside the Saturn V Rocket Hall, they have another FULL SIZE replica of the Saturn V Rocket standing straight up so you can see just how tall the rocket was! HUGE!!
At the Marshall Space Flight Center, they control the International Space Station .... and here they are doing their job on the tour!
My Visit to Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida - June 2024
My Visit to Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida - June 2024
Scroll through the pictures to see Space Shuttle Atlantis, Mercury Rocket, Saturn 1B Rocket, Saturn V rocket, Astronaut History, and more!
TO LEARN MORE...
TO LEARN MORE...
To learn more about the Space Shuttle Endeavour, The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, or The Marshall Space Flight Center, here are a few links to websites you can check out:
1) Space Shuttle Endeavour's Wikipedia Page
2) Space Shuttle Endeavour's NASA Page
3) Space Shuttle Atlantis's Wikipedia Page
4) Space Shuttle Atlantis's NASA Page
5) NASA's Space Shuttle Information Page
7) Johnson Space Center, Houston
8) U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville
Visit NASA's Website by clicking the photo above!
Visit NASA's Website by clicking the photo above!
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