Activities & Attractions

Put on your space helmet and blast off to the most exciting, fun adventure on Earth. Out-of-this-world family fun at NASA's official visitor center includes live shows and presentations, interactive exhibits, IMAX theater, behind-the-scenes tours to the Johnson Space Center and much more.

See actual spacecraft, like Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules, and watch astronauts train for upcoming space shuttle missions. Try on space helmets, touch a moon rock, or land the shuttle and try a space walk on state-of-the-art simulators. Live satellite links to NASA facilities provide up-to-date information about current space flights and astronaut training activities.

Kids of all ages can jump on the moon, staff the space station, drive a lunar rover, command the space shuttle, build and launch a rocket, and lots more at the exciting Kids Space Place.

Open Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (extended hours in summer); Sat.–Sun. 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Closed Christmas day. Admission fee. 1601 NASA Parkway , 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston. 281/244-2105.