This was what we were expecting upon visiting NASA. We loved watching the film and walking through the museum learning and seeing things from the past. Once back inside, we decided to go into the Starship Gallery, which made the visit worthwhile. The park stop at the end was the best part of the tram tour. We could barely hear the overhead speakers on the tram, and the training center was covered in tarps due to the building being repainted. We took the red tour - the one that takes you to the training center for the International Space Station as well as the Rocket X park at the end. With no real guide on where to go and what to do other than the map given to us, we decided to stand in line for a tram tour. We walked into the Johnson Space Center and immediately were overwhelmed by the sounds of screaming kids. I do not know how they manage big crowds, they did not do that well with us.Īpparently, Fridays are field trip days. The parking lot was about one tenth full. As adult baby boomers, the rest of the museum was not geared to us. A number of counters were closed in our visit before Memorial Day. Enjoyed a better than average lunch in the food court. But what artifacts! Timeline with newspaper headlines sets the stage and plenty of capsules and space gear rounds it all out. This caused bottlenecks at the initial displays as the viewing ends.
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I had to ask someone how to get in, you sit through a short movie first. The artifacts in the Starship Gallery were a must see. Our docent, a retired rocket scientist, knew his stuff and presented it well. The Saturn V was the best run part of the tour, perhaps because it is managed by the Smithsonian instead of NASA. The Training Center mockups were interesting, although covered in plastic for building painting. This is apparently the bottleneck of the tour with a walk up to about the fifth floor and not the place to spend time on a question and answer session. The tram did take us to the highlights of the Johnson Space Center and I would not have missed it. NASA needs to find a way to add more trams (THAT is not rocket science) and entertain those that have to wait. We waited in line for 40 minutes with nothing to do but wait for a security check by armed guards. It is an awesome collection, but the tram ride needs some help from Disney. We were there 4+ hrs and saw what we wanted to see. I would recommend bringing a cooler and a basket to picnic out by the T-38 Talons in the grassy area. We mostly flipped upside down instead of trying to shoot down the enemy.
For $6 we also got in the Flight Simulator. We did Starship Gallery (touched a moon rock and saw the podium JFK used to make his "Moon speech." Watched the Living In Space presentation - interesting to see how the astronauts used the privy. When we returned we were suprised there were very few people there.
I would like to have stayed longer and read all the posted information but we only had about 10 minutes. Saturn V is housed at Rocket Park and was quite impressive. It was interesting to see the control room with the light up buttons, dials and switches. We made 3 stops: control center, viewed the mockup international space station and Rocket Park. We headed to the tram as recommended and were placed on the first one. There was roughly 50 people - most of them summer interns for NASA. We were able to buy tickets in May and scored 1/2 price! We arrived early on a Thursday.
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