The doors to NASA will be opened wide Saturday, August 29, as the Johnson Space Center in Houston hosts its fourth annual open house. The free event, which drew over 70,000 people last year, showcases the people, equipment and facilities at the heart of America s human space flight program. Gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.
Free parking is available.
Visitors will see astronaut training equipment, full-size mockups of the space shuttle and space station, advanced spacecraft designs and Mission Control. More than 150 exhibits will be shown in 20 buildings at the Space Center. Trams and buses will help move visitors around the center and to Ellington Field where NASA will display its astronaut training and research aircraft. The Sonny Carter Training Facility, home to one of the world s largest indoor pools and used to train space walkers, also is reachable by a free bus ride. Space suits used by astronauts and cosmonauts.