Space, the final frontier............

Flew to Houston, Texas, for Katrina's conference, then went for a trip of a lifetime to the Johnson Spaceflight Center.  Had a tour of the facility, and saw the original historic Mission Control which was used from 1965 to 1992.  Also got to fondle a Saturn V rocket, the size is hard to comprehend (the rocket that is):

The Galileo Shuttlecraft from the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 

Mission Control

Gene Krantz's desk of Apollo 13 fame

A full size mock-up of the International Space Station in the space vehicle training facility

The Soyuz escape module

The new Orion capsule being developed for future space missions

An experimental ROV

An experimental robot with enough dexterity to type a chapter on a smart phone without error

An F-1 rocket (Left) from a Saturn V rocket

5 F-1's!

The size of the Saturn V is hard to comprehend

On the flight deck of a Shuttle mock-up

A Nikon F1 Photomic with motordrive (modified F-36?) and a 55mm f 1.2 nikkor - property of the US Govt, as used by the Apollo crews.

Skylab mock-up

Showering in the skylab

A full size shuttle mock-up