Houston Space Center Exploration Tour

This tour only has 1 stop: Space Center Houston (SCH). SCH is connected to NASA or the Johnson Space Center (JSC), where the astronauts train and the engineers work. We will walk over 5,000 steps at SCH as I plan on showing as much as possible in the main building and in the additional buildings, Rocket Park and the Astronauts Training Facility, where the trams take tourists. I will talk a lot about the space program, tying the past to the present, and future explorations.

Meeting Point

Houston City Hall

901 Bagby St, Houston, TX 77002, USA

We meet inside the rotunda of the Houston City Hall at 901 Bagby Street, Houston, Texas 77002 on Monday through Friday. City Hall is closed on weekends. On weekends, we meet at a park bench on the east side of City Hall.

What's included:

• Guide

What to expect:

Duration: 8 hours

Space Center Houston

1601 NASA Parkway, , Houston, 77058-3145, Texas

Tourists will have the opportunity to:
1. Go on a tram ride to Rocket Park and Independence Plaza to see Mercury and Saturn V rockets and go inside a practice shuttle and a real 747 that used to have shuttles attached to them. I will provide a narrative tour at the rockets, describing the history of them, their purposes, their engines and power, and more. 1.5 to 2.0 hours.
2. See the 15 minute, 30 second documentary "human Destiny."
3. Have a narrative tour in the Starship Gallery space museum where they can touch a moon rock, see capsules up close of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo rockets, walk through a model of Skylab, and more. 30 minutes.
4. Go on a second tram to the Astronauts Training Facility. 45 minutes.
5. Lunch at the SCH cafeteria. 45 minutes.
6. See an Elon Musk Space X rocket Falcon 9 that actually flew. 5 minutes.
7. Souvenir shopping. 20 minutes.
8. Possibly see another movie or hear an astronaut talk.
9. Drive to and from SCH. 1.0 - 1.5 hours.

7 hours • Admission Ticket Included