Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!lescsse!gamorris From: gamorris@lescsse.uucp (Gary A. Morris) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Visit to Houston Space Centre...? Message-ID: <1990Nov29.221845.8590@lescsse.uucp> Date: 29 Nov 90 22:18:45 GMT References: <524@newave.UUCP> Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Lines: 32 In <524@newave.UUCP> john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes: >In article sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) writes: >> I would very much like to visit the Space center while I am here in >> Houston. I would be most grateful for any details regarding the necessary >> arrangements for such a visit. There is a visitor information recording available by calling 713-483-4321. The Johnson Space Center (JSC) is open to the public every day except December 25th. The visitor gate is open from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, buildings close at 4:30 PM. Admission is free. Tours are self-guided, stay as long as you like at any display, except mission control tours are guided and scheduled. You should go to building 2 after arrival to get tickets for one of the Flight Control Room (FCR) (mission control) tours. Admission is free. The FCR is closed to visitors during flights (starting the day before launch). If STS-35 launches as scheduled on Dec 2nd, mission control will be closed from 12/2/90 to 12/11/90. Guided tours start every 30 minutes, 100 tickets per tour are given out, first come first served. >1. Rocket park - Saturn V bird stand, a little joe, and one other smaller >rocket (Atlas I think). It's a Redstone with a Mercury capsule. --GaryM -- Gary Morris Internet: lobster!lescsse!gamorris@menudo.uh.edu Lockheed (LESC), A22 UUCP: lobster!lescsse!gamorris Space Station Freedom NASAmail: gmorris/jsc/nasa Houston, Texas Internet: gmorris@nasamail.nasa.gov