At Space Center Houston, a part of the NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston which is open to the public, you can get as close to going into space as you ever will. You can go inside the capsule of the 122-foot, 130,000-pound replica of the space shuttle Independence andexperience a multimedia "blast off", so real that it will shake you to the core.

The Living in Space exhibit will let you actually go into a space ship cabin and a NASA tram will take you to see an astronaut gallery with real, used space suits. In the Historic Mission Control Center and the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility; you can test your skills at landing the shuttle in the simulator.

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