The Houston Space Center is the best place for space exploration, especially if you have kids who are budding astronauts or just interested in space, science, or American History. A visit to this legendary landmark is an absolute must if you happen to be there on holiday. You can be sure of a great experience for learning, excitement, and fun!

Kids and adults alike will take great pleasure in visiting the Houston Space Center. The center welcomes in children of all ages to learn about science and space exploration. In fact, there is a special Kids Space Place just for the budding astronauts. With tons of hands on activities just for kids, the younger crowd is sure to enjoy a visit to this educational and fun space center. Encourage your kids to learn about space, science, and the importance of space exploration.

All ages of visitors are sure to love the exclusive behind the scenes peek at the space center on the NASA tram tour. See everything the Johnson Space Center has to offer, including the historic mission control that guided the early space exploration programs of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. Also, get a peek at Hanger X and astronaut training facilities. Who knows, you might even get a glimpse of actual astronauts training for their missions!

The Astronaut Gallery at the Space Center gives loads of information on the men and women astronauts who have donned the space suits. Here you would find portraits of astronauts, space suits and a variety of memorabilia. Memorial of astronauts killed in training and actual missions like Apollo One, Challenger, and Columbia is not to be missed.

The Feel of Space actually gives you the feel of what it would be like to live, sleep, and work in space. Through this interactive presentation you can see how the astronauts live while in outer space, while a Mission Briefing Officer tells you secrets and answers any questions. You can experience landing an orbiter, exploring the shuttle, or even retrieving a wayward satellite!

The Space Center Theater shows the history of space flight on the big screen. You will see how President Kennedy's daring goal to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade became Neil Armstrong's classic first line, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". The five-storey screen presents history in larger-than-life form, so that you get transported back through history and into the future of space exploration.

The center also offers several different movies and experiences suitable for individuals of all ages. Kids and adults alike will enjoy the Blast Off Theater, which puts visitors in the center of the action as a space shuttle departs for the international space station. See what goes on behind the scenes during liftoff, as the flurry of activity in mission control and mission status center.

The Houston Space Center is not to be missed if you are in its neighborhood. Shop at the Space Trader and purchase some mementoes of your trip for fond memories for you and your family. You would be amazed at what you can buy at the Space Trader-astronaut ice-cream, reproductions of newspapers commemorating important events in space explorations like landing on the moon-just to name a few! School groups and family all would find the visit a great fun-filled learning experience. Just 25 miles south of Houston, the Houston Space Center is waiting to be explored by you and your family.