Museum · Clear Lake
Space Center Houston
1601 E NASA Parkway, Houston 77058
The official visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center sits in Clear Lake, about 25 miles southeast of downtown. It pairs flown spacecraft, moon rocks and spacesuits with films, live presentations and tram tours of the working NASA campus, and draws more than a million visitors a year.
Permanent exhibitions
- Independence Plaza: the shuttle replica Independence mounted on the NASA 905 carrier aircraft
- Starship Gallery: flown Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft and lunar samples
- Spacesuit Collection, from early pressure suits to Artemis prototypes
- International Space Station Gallery
- Artemis exhibit on the return to the Moon
- Mission: Sketch and the Science Deck hands-on areas
- NASA tram tours to Mission Control and Rocket Park (Saturn V)
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