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Stopped for lunch along I-10
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Some people tow with alternate priorities
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John Gill and Flounder
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Al & Mary Radspinner and a few Afghans
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Flounder fetches, but doesn't like to give
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Andy is the other Golden
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Mary and Al
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Too many dog names to remember
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Flounder we remember 'cause he's always wet
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Many of John & Mary's dogs are rescue dogs
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How Flounder gets so wet
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John, Mendelssohn and Judy
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Andy loves his tennis balls
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Mendelssohn chows down; Flounder & Andy eye their toys
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You just gotta love a basset
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Mary tries out Judy's newest harp
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The harp passed muster
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All four of us in the RV (if you look carefully)
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Inside Melody's Traditional Music
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Some of the harps on display
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Entrance to Space Center Houston and the Johnson Space Center
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The old NASA Mission Control room
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We all sat in the VIP Gallery
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A plaque is hung on the control room wall for every mission.
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Our host at Mission Control
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Our luxury transportation for the NASA tour
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Our tour guide was Harry Potter (his name tag said Andrew, but we didn't believe it)
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The astronaut training facility is huge
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There are full-size mockups of most of the International Space Station
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They're used to train astronauts and to help design new components
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There are many space agencies working on the space station
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There are also several full-size mockups of the Space Shuttle
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They're used for practice and development as well
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The business end.
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Training for the Canada Arm II manipulator system
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Rocket Park has some rockets in it
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The biggest one - a Saturn Booster - is being refurbished in that building
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But these are not exactly small
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The Lego-naut
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"Down among the sheltering palms....."
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A space shuttle engine - each shuttle has three
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A full-size replica space shuttle you can tour
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Lots of neat stuff
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One of the actual Gemini capsules
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A cutaway space capsule
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A full-sized replica of the first US satellite - Explorer - only about 4 ft. long
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The actual Mercury capsule flown by Alan Shepherd
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Another Gemini capsule
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That's one of the 3-man Apollo capsules
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That's all the living space they had to go to the moon and back
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A simulation, of course
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Moon Rocks
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A fuel cell from the Apollo missions
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A mockup of a docking module from SpaceLab
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A full-size mockup of SpaceLab - used for training
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A model of the newest shuttle - Endeavor
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What the International Space Station will look like when finished
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Businesses in Houston had a thing for inflated figures
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There were balloons everywhere along the interstates
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We're not sure how they were supposed to relate to the businesses
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The impressive Houston skyline ends our slideshow