NASA

I guess no self-respecting tourist could visit Houston without visiting the Space Center. We were no different and spent a day there. Somehow I have no picture of the HUGE, VERY TALL play structure. Caitlyn really liked the wall that had a picture of each crew of every mission. There was a very cool room full of moon rocks. And one we could touch. That's just so cool.

We were pretty impressed with how small some of the older spaceships were and didn't really relish the idea of sitting in such a small space for hours or even days.

They have also developed a robot hand that moves almost like a human hand. A person inside the ship controls the hand outside the ship by wearing a glove and moving however they want robo-naut to move :).

We saw a wall made of triangles, kind of like a chain-link fence. Then learned that the astronauts have triangles on the bottoms of their shoes that fit into the wall triangles so they can climb the wall. Very clever!

Keegan using hand controls to attempt to dock the space station. She did :).

Not really sure what this had to do with NASA, but Caitlyn, Keegan, and Kelsey are trying to hit the rocks that light up. It was fun, anyway.
Keegan and I are in there! Keegy loved the simulator. It didn't scare her at all.

Taking the tram tour

Those fuel boosters are looooooooooong

The real mission control - "Houston, we have a problem."

That's my family under there ;)

Keegan and Kelsey were both brave enough, and patient enough in the slow line, to go through this obstacle course, harnessed to a rope!

Keegan even made a silly band trade mid-way through! One worker kept trying to get her to give him one of hers, but she wouldn't. Another worker overheard, traded Keegan one he was wearing and gave it to the first worker. Totally cracked me up. Silly bands even at NASA :).

How much would this barbell weigh on different planets? Try it and see.

Keegan in the no-gravity trainer. The chair was on something like a giant air hockey table so it kind of floated around. The person in it tried to control in and accomplish several tasks within a certain time period.