So we looked around at the items they have, which were incredible. then we took a 90 minute tram tour around some of the 1000 acres of land there. We had a few stops along the way and were able to see such history! We were in the command center for 9 Gemini missions and all Apollo missions, including the infamous Apollo 13. The feeling in that room cannot be conveyed thru a picture, the plaques from successful missions, the flag that has been in moon soil and brought back by last mission monitored from that room, the tribute to the lost souls from Challenger mission disaster, the technology that was used back then, rotary dial phone on console and such. We saw the Saturn V rocket, I believe there were 5 parts?? This is one building I would take a ton of pics in next time. The size was so massive when you were standing there. And the pics of all of the real astronauts and the dates/mission details/quotes/details were on the wall as you walked along. So humbling to stand next to this. Incredible to think that some of those men stood on the moon after arriving in a rocket...
We saw the training building. When I say building...these are so massive. The door is as big as a football field. Many many stories high, with capsules and stations for the astronauts to train in once they are done with classroom learning. They have each item to scale and actual equipment for them to train in, get familiar with. There is a whole building for them to go to for 5 days after returning from a mission to get used to gravity again. They said there is no way to get 100% accurate on the no gravity feeling or to reverse it but they have "tricks" they said.
The robotics building was one of the most fascinating. they have robots that can be used as human hands and do intricate things like turn a screw for them. They had row after row of tool boxes/parts and computers, robots, work stations, way cool office! and one of the workers looked like a 16 year old young man. I thought of my grand kids and how amazing they are and how each of them can do things with computers I will probably never be able to do and imagined this young man and what an incredible job/opportunity/responsibility he has...
below I have added a few of the pictures I got before the camera died.
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