At a nearby career kiosk, just pick up the handset, press a button and hear what it takes to become an oceanographer or meteorologist. Fiber-optic displays and plasma video boards depict how the Navy collects information from the oceans and atmosphere, crunches the data in the Navy's biggest computer and sends that information to Navy ships, aircraft and submarines worldwide. Wade across the room and study maps of the real ocean floor created right across the street at the Naval Oceanographic Office. Churn up a tornado in a bottle and test your knowledge of the world's oceans with an interactive computer quiz. You may also want to try your luck at driving the Space Shuttle and find out how astronauts live in space in the NASA exhibit or grab a hamburger and malt in the RocKeTeria an early 1960's style soda shop.
Admission is free.
The ride to StenniSphere includes a 25-minute narrated tour of the Stennis Space Center buffer zone and facilities, including the stands where NASA tests its space shuttle engines.