NASA Space Center, 1/1/09

Dale on the flight simulator. The computer said he did an amazing job! I thought it just told everyone that...until I tried.

Our tram tour took us to this building where the retired and current mission control is located, and this hanger sized "room" were Astronauts do real trainging for space. This is the shuttle simulator.

Inside this building (as demonstrating by the picture seen here on the outside), is the ACTUAL Saturn V (5) rocket! Reasembled for our viewing pleasure, pieces that had exited our atmosphere, and the triangle shaped capsule that plopped into the ocean.

Fuzzy picture at end of Saturn V, but look at the size of that exhaust pipe! Its Texas sized (or Alaskan sized, as Dale likes to put it. ; )

A map of the Lunar Landing Sites, and gold stars with points of interest on the moon's surface, for future explorations.

Here's us, so close to a lunar vehicle that was once actually on the moon!

Gavin now plans on being an Aeronautic Engineer (as you see him demonstrating here how to repair a component in the fuselage with a cell phone charger and mitten as a work glove). His favorite words are Astronaut, rocket ship, space shuttle & fly to the moon. Daily I hear this question "Mommy, where Aeronaut? In space shuttle? He fly to a moooon!"