Published: August 8, 2024

Space Center Houston

Photos of the NASA museum in Houston, Texas, including images of the Historic Mission Control Room and the Astronaut training facility at Johnson Space Center.

1. Space Center Houston Indoors
2. Independence Plaza
3. Historic Mission Control Room
4. Astronaut Training Facility
5. Rocket Park

Space Center Houston Indoors

International Space Station

Lunar Module LTA-8

Orion Spaceship

1960s Spacesuits

Charles Conrad and Michael Collins spacesuits

LEFT: Charles Conrad 1969 spacesuit, Apollo 12 expedition.
RIGHT: Michael Collins 1966 spacesuit.

1960s NASA Spacesuits

Liquid Cooling Garment and MARK 3 spacesuit

LEFT: MARK 3 spacesuit prototype.
RIGHT: Liquid Cooling Garment used by Paul Weitz under his spacesuit.

Kathryn Sullivan’s 1984 spacesuit

Judith Resnik’s space garment

NASA Crew portraits gallery

Space Launch System

LEFT: Space Launch System model
RIGHT: RS-25 Rocket Engine

NASA pressure, ejection, and launch suits

NASA intravehicular pressure suit, ejection suit, and Launch and Entry suit

LEFT: Donald Slayton intravehicular pressure suit.
CENTER: Astronaut John Young’s ejection suit, 1981.
RIGHT: Launch and Entry suit

The Skylab, an orbital workshop

Skylab Wardroom

Apollo-Soyuz Docking Module Trainer

Apollo-Soyuz Docking Module Trainer. The 1975 joint project of the United States and the Soviet Union that initiated the collaboration in space.

Apollo era mission control console

Lunar Surface display

Astronaut mannequins in Lunar Spacewalk display

A display depicting two astronauts working on the Moon

Moon Exploration devices

Lunar Rover and gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph

LEFT: Lunar Rover
RIGHT: Gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph

The Lunar Surface Exhibit

Astronaut mannequins working on the Moon in a display at the Houston Space Center

Lunar Spacewalk and the Lunar Rover

Another view of the astronaut mannequin working on the surface of the Moon display.

Apollo 17 Command Module 1972

This Command Module orbited the Moon

Service Medal and Apollo 17 Docking hatch

LEFT: NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
RIGHT: Apollo 17 Command Module Docking hatch that sealed and opened the transfer tunnel from the Command-Service Module to the Lunar Module. The Apollo astronauts used it to transfer to the Lunar Module ad land on the Moon.

Mercury 9 Spacecraft “Faith 7” replica

Prototype spacesuit

Prototype spacesuit parts for the Artemis moon-walking suit.

Solar arrays of the International Space Station

Solar arrays provide power to the International Space Station and recharge the batteries that provide power during orbital nights.

Robonaut

The Robonaut is a Robot that is being developed by NASA to use tools and work along astronauts on the International Space Station.

Space rock samples

Touch the Moon and Touch Mars display at NASA

LEFT: “Touch the Moon” display.
RIGHT: “Touch Mars” display.

Lunar Rocks

Lunar rocks from Apollo missions on display at Houston Space Center.

Independence Plaza

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX Falcon 9 at NASA Independece Plaza

The Falcon 9 is a type of rocket that can be reused.

Falcon 9 rocket

This Falcon 9 rocket has flown two missions for NASA.

Space Shuttle Independence

Space Shuttle Independence mounted on the NASA shuttle carrier aircraft.

Space Shuttle

A closer view of the Space Shuttle full-size replica.

Historic Mission Control Room

The historic Mission Control room is preserved as close as possible to its original condition during the Moon landing show orchestrated in 1961.

NASA Mission Control

Building 30 at NASA Johnson Space Center is not only a historical landmark but it also includes other floors that are currently being used for communication between Earth and space missions.

Historic Mission Control panels and TV

Historic Mission Control panels and a TV playing one of the tapes from the 1969 Moon landing show that NASA lost.

Historic Mission Control panel

NASA Mission Control panel

NASA mission control room

Apollo mission control consoles

NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

During the tram ride to the Mission Control Center you can see other buildings at Johnson Space Center.

Astronaut Training Facility

NASA Astronaut Training Facility

This facility houses a replica of several International Space Station modules and it is used to train NASA astronauts. In this photo you can see the Звезда (Zvezda, “Star”) service module, and the Boeing Starliner at the bottom right.

Заря module

The Заря (Zarya) module was the first module of the ISS.. Заря means “dawn” or “sunrise” and was named so to represent a new era of Soviet-American cooperation.

Quest Joint Airlock and the Заря module

Starliner and Artemis Module

Boeing Starliner spacecraft and Artemis Crew Module

LEFT: CST-100 Boeing Starliner spacecraft on the left.
RIGHT: Artemis Crew Module.

Rocket Park

Saturn V building houses the massive rocket

Saturn V Rocket

Saturn V stage 2 and 3

A Saturn V rocket like this one was used to launch the Apollo missions from 1968 to 1979, and the Skylab space station in 1973.

Saturn V Rocket stage 1

Saturn V Rocket. This rocket is composed of 3 parts or stages, this is Stage 1. The stages burn fuel and detach until the modules reach the destination.

Stage 3 Saturn V

Stage 3 of the Saturn V rocket and its J-2 engine.

J-2 engine of Stage 3

Little Joe II and Mercury-Redstone rockets

A rocket like Little Joe II (on the left) was used to test the Apollo and Saturn V Launch Escape System from 1963 to 1966. The Mercury-Redstone rockets (on the right, in the background) were used to launch astronauts Alar Shepard and Gus Grisson into space in 1961.

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