Wow the Space Center

WOW.

Really.

We walked in to the Space Center and Daddy immediately realized he wasn't in Abilene any more. We were both fascinated. We soon found the displays of all the Space suits throughout NASA history. Some were still covered in MOON DUST! I was reading anything I could plant my eyes on, and Daddy kept pointing to things and saying "That Has Been to The MOON Emily!" and when I would offer up some piece of seemingly revelatory information he would say something like "Yeah, you didn't know that? Well, I don't guess you would, you weren't born yet." Then he would say some random piece of space trivia knowledge that left me in AWE.

We decided to do the grounds facilities tour first. It was great. That place is HUGE. They drove us around in a golf-cart/train-type thing and told us about all the buildings. Then it stopped and we all got out:

MISSION CONTROL BABY

Daddy and I were the first ones in, and the last ones out. (It was that way on all the tour stops, but who does that surprise) Dad talked about how many times he had seen this on TV, and the tour guide said they were using this room into the 90's! Wow, right? These days, mission control lives in the room downstairs and they all work on Macs... OK the Mac part is my edition really, but it is conceivable.

We were enjoying ourselves fully.

We got out again at one of the training Facilities. This is one of four rooms (if you can call it a room) in witch they do all sorts of training and simulations. It is ENORMOUS! It would take about four pictures like this one to get show it all.

Do you see the nose of the space shuttle in the bottom left?

This is what it looks like when you get closer. that big open place in the middle is where the Mechanical Arm stays.

Guess what...

There was a girl in there Training!

The orange in the window is her real live space suit. You could even see where her Space Helmet hooked on.

I KNOW!

We lingered, and some nice guy took our picture for us.

(No, there is not any Cardassian in my blood.)

We were the last ones out of the training center as our tour guide mentioned while gently edging us of the area, that this is the newest training module. Do you wonder why it is so small? Let me tell you.

It is the mock up of the next LUNAR LANDER FOR SATURN 5! I don't know why they had to put it all the way across the gargantuan room but, in a hurry, and on mega zoom, making everyone else wait on us, I snapped a couple of shots. Both came out blurry. However, next we went to the rockets so remember this tiny, little, can't-stand-up-in-it, moon lander when you see what takes it to the moon.

More to come