President Obama and children

Asking questions of the ISS crew live. Just great to be here in the control room for this.

president obama

the president addresses ISS

ISS Contro Consoles

This was the former Shuttle control room and before that used for Skylab

ISS Control Room

Space Station Mission Control

Apollo Control Room

control desks

Apollo Mission Control

this is amazing

apollo control rom

national historic monument - too cool

wakeup call

Shuttle wakeup call - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Mission Control

We're in mission control now - waiting for the wakeuo call in 2 minutes

divers

Astronauts in the huge tank right now

NBL

astronauts doing underwater training right now

harmony module

this is where the shuttle docks to ISS. think of it as the front door.

ISS Trainer

full sized space station mockup

critical space items

some real space stuff!

space station

trainer for full scale exercises

construction

working on mockup capsule

docking trainer

training equipment up and close

Mockup

Full size Shuttle mockup - everything except the height of the tail is dimensionally accurate. Too cool.

boarding the bus

Heading out on the bus to astronaut training

STS-129 Crew photo

Here is Randy's crew photo

helmet

man these helmets are heavy

land the shuttle

Time for me to test my landing skills

space rock

I'm touching a 3.5billion year old shard from space!

space rocks

Someone left the vault open - who wants a space rock?

STS-129 Landing

Small clip of Shuttle landing STS-129