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Johnson Space Center, Houston

Visitor Center

Star Wars Exhibit.

Rocket Park

Tour

After lunch at the NASA cafeteria, the tour begins with a trip to the Neutral Buoyancy Training Pool about ten miles away. The pool was built in 1997 and named in honor of Astronaut Sonny Carter who died in a civilian airplane crash. This is the largest indoor pool in the world, measuring 102 feet wide, 202 feet long, and 40 fee deep, filled with full size mock-ups of Space Shuttle and Space Station parts. The neutral buoyancy allows simulation of weightlessness and astronauts train for assembling the Space Station and working in the Space Shuttle cargo bay. Four divers assist each astronaut in training.

On the way to the pool, the tour passes many support buildings.

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