Eastern Texas
We visited the Johnson Space Center at NASA, Houston, Texas. Dan enjoyed it more than I did, but since we'd already visited the StennisSphere Center in Mississippi, NASA seemed a bit redundant. We toured the training facility, and another section where they are building the space station evacuation vehicle (Editor's Note: this project was cancelled some time in 2004). The exhibits were informative and I even found my brand of dental floss on the shuttle mock-up. We nearly froze to death at the Imax Theatre and neither of us can even remember what the movie was about -- we were too busy shivering to take notice.

The Saturn 5 rocket is about 360 feet high and about 30 feet wide. It can carry 120 tons into orbit around the earth or launch 45 tons to the moon

Saturn 5 Rocket at NASA, Houston. More info HERE

We visited the Moody Aquarium in Galveston, Texas which was one of the best aquariums I've ever visited -- better even than "The Living Seas" at Epcot Center. It had a neat tube you could walk though and see fish swimming overhead. We also saw a film, The Great Storm, about the 1900 hurricane that nearly destroyed Galveston. More info HERE

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