How cool! We were finally here!!!
What we were looking at when we came in was the Rocket Garden! The Rocket Garden was literally a garden filled with old rockets! We both love to shoot off rockets, so this was so cool, and these were the biggest rockets we'd ever seen!
It was very cool to learn about and see all the rockets that made space history.
Love the palm trees everywhere!
The rockets were all held up by some major strands of wire.
That one in the background was HUGE (but unknown at the time, not the biggest rocket we'd see that day).
These rockets carried early astronauts into space.
There were over a dozen different rockets from different missions.
I'm pretty sure this was the Gemini capsule. The rockets were the power, but the astronauts were cramped in these little pods, which detatched from the rocket once they were up there.
Not too bad, but could you imagine staying in this little space for days at a time?
Early engines.
This is one F1 engine. The same engines have been blasting people off into space for years. It's the most powerful engine ever produced. They used 5 of these to send up the Saturn V rocket!
Click on the photo to read about the F1 engine
It was gigantic!
This was pretty cool. You got to walk across the service arm to feel like an astronaut. This was the last time their feet would be on something connected to Earth before their journey.
Walking down the hallway!
This capsule was built for 3! Tight squeeze!
Here's Robb and me, sitting in the "Apollo."
Rocket Garden!
All of those are F1 engines. Can you imagine the sound of that blasting off!!!
I was pretty excited that this summer was NASA's sci-fi summer, where they also had all this Star Trek stuff. They had many exhibits comparing NASA to Star Trek, showing what could be real, or not. This painting compared the different space vehicles that we had to the NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-D. Our ships couldn't even come close to the size of these babies!
Now, this was the smallest pod! I don't remember which rocket this is from, but it only held 1, and wasn't comfortable
at all!!!
Giant silver rocket!
We went in to this exhibit quickly, we had to catch a show, and never came back. But it was cool inside. Showed all kinds of relics from early space exploration.
Pretend mission control
Then we went to see a IMAX movie. We saw one about the Space Station though.
This is a replica of the lunar module.
See the heat shield on the bottom of this capsule? That is how it came through the atmosphere, and then deployed a parachute to safely float down to the ocean.
What we were looking at when we came in was the Rocket Garden! The Rocket Garden was literally a garden filled with old rockets! We both love to shoot off rockets, so this was so cool, and these were the biggest rockets we'd ever seen!
It was very cool to learn about and see all the rockets that made space history.
Love the palm trees everywhere!
The rockets were all held up by some major strands of wire.
That one in the background was HUGE (but unknown at the time, not the biggest rocket we'd see that day).
These rockets carried early astronauts into space.
There were over a dozen different rockets from different missions.
I'm pretty sure this was the Gemini capsule. The rockets were the power, but the astronauts were cramped in these little pods, which detatched from the rocket once they were up there.
Not too bad, but could you imagine staying in this little space for days at a time?
Early engines. 
This is one F1 engine. The same engines have been blasting people off into space for years. It's the most powerful engine ever produced. They used 5 of these to send up the Saturn V rocket!
Click on the photo to read about the F1 engine
It was gigantic!
This was pretty cool. You got to walk across the service arm to feel like an astronaut. This was the last time their feet would be on something connected to Earth before their journey.
Walking down the hallway!
This capsule was built for 3! Tight squeeze!
Here's Robb and me, sitting in the "Apollo."
Rocket Garden!
All of those are F1 engines. Can you imagine the sound of that blasting off!!!
I was pretty excited that this summer was NASA's sci-fi summer, where they also had all this Star Trek stuff. They had many exhibits comparing NASA to Star Trek, showing what could be real, or not. This painting compared the different space vehicles that we had to the NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-D. Our ships couldn't even come close to the size of these babies!
Now, this was the smallest pod! I don't remember which rocket this is from, but it only held 1, and wasn't comfortable at all!!!
Giant silver rocket!
We went in to this exhibit quickly, we had to catch a show, and never came back. But it was cool inside. Showed all kinds of relics from early space exploration.
Pretend mission control
Then we went to see a IMAX movie. We saw one about the Space Station though.
This is a replica of the lunar module.
See the heat shield on the bottom of this capsule? That is how it came through the atmosphere, and then deployed a parachute to safely float down to the ocean.
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