How to Visit Johnson Space Center & Space Center Houston
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” Most people recognize this line from the movie Apollo 13. When Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) calls down to earth to report a major problem with the mission, his famous line was etched in our collective memory. (It’s often erroneously quoted as “Houston, we have a problem.” Verb tenses matter, people!) It wasn’t some person he was calling back to, or a code name or acronym come up with by the U.S. government. ‘Houston’ was Houston, Texas, and the men (and very few women) who at the time were running NASA operations there. Houston’s ties to NASA and the space industry date back to the 1960s, with…
13 Famous Craters You Can Visit
Nothing takes your breath away quite like a giant reminder that earth gets pummeled by extraterrestrial objects all the time. Planet earth is a dynamic place to live. As we spin through space, thaustere are loads of objects we can — and do — collide with. Our moon is evidence of that! Just look how pock-marked it is, after millennia of colliding with meteorites and other space debris. On earth, most of the impact craters have been lost, but there are still many you can see. Just look at this map we put together of the most visible impact craters around the world: If you want to visit one of…
