Space center NASA Houston Texas is a science exhibition that showcases the space achievements of the US of A which is sizeable indeed and impressive .
In the early days of space frontier exploration man tried to break free of the orbit into space where the protective oxygen which we all need wasno more there and the gravity to our motger esrth which holds us all down no more exists but this was not a simple matter .
Man deciding and designing to fly itself was an achievment but its limits was the sky .
To go beyond the glass celing one needed massive boost of energy to project the vehicle out of the earths gravitational belt which in turn needs great qauantities of fuel and its obviously understood lighter vehicles need less energy to do this .
Slowly and steadily this was achieved with unmanned vehicles later with animals and finally man .
Yuri Gagarin was first man in space and USSR unremarkably the leaders in space exploration .
This was also the post second world war period of cold war between USSR and USA .
The winner would have an advantage militarily too .
So there was great competition in putting a man on the moon .
The moon shot was the name given to the accelarated space exploration of USA and it did it phenomenally through Apollo 11 in 1969 and stole an one up on USSR .by Appolo 17 the heat of competition had come down as USSR crumbled into a much weaker Russia
A period of companionship and cooperation in space exploration is there now though competition still exists for space is a vista of oppurtunities militarily and matireally .
The period of Skylab later the International space station made man stay in space longer periods and reusable shuttles were built .
Plan for travel to Mars by humans is on and as we learn more on space and how to manage it our frontiers become wider .
The Space center chronicles this achievement of the USA .
it has replica models ,some real ones of shuttles ,rockets,simulation xhambers,space suits ,equipments pictures moonstones which could be touched ,Astronaut talks ,films ,shows all .
Rocket station is where one could go into shuttle skylabs and rockets learn on them
20 $ tickets are definitely worth the visit .
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