Visit to NASA Johnson Space Center

Last Weekend was a fantastic weekend for me!! Guess What??? I visited NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. To put it straight, I fell in love with this place instantly.

I had my friends reminding me that the Kennedy Space Center is interesting than the Johnson Space Center. But this trip was kind of more Informative. We got to see couple of the High Definition movies with "To be an Astronaut" stealing the show!! Astronauts on opposite sides working on fixing things out of the same Shuttle have a temperature difference of nearly 350 degree Centigrade!! I had a personal feel that any child who dreams to fly/explore the universe should see this movie.It clearly depicts as to how much ordeal these astronauts undergo as part of their training program. Do you believe that they undergo an intense training of two long years before boarding a Space Shuttle.Being an astronaut isn't a Cake walk.They are risking their life for the sake of mankind. There are chances that these people get hit by a passing asteroid. Unimaginable!!

There was another show "Living In Space" explaining how astronaust live in space .Even the simpler tasks like brushing,bathing,Eating food,Sleeping requires different training as they live on zero gravity. Just think how much dedication and determination is required to do these taks in a peculiar way rather than the usual way we have been tuned to in all these years!!

We had been on a Tram Tour around the entire premises which is more informative on the training side of it.We were explained about the Space Programs,Monitoring the Space Stations,how the astronauts are trained to do job on board and in Space station. Impressive one I should say.

Finally the Startship Gallery. Oh Boy!! You love it.. The gallery of all news clips,space shuttles,the models depicting the instruments used by astronauts on travel to Moon,lunar samples....more informative.

I should really agree that such places must also be visited rather than the Stereo-typed Theme Parks or fun Games.