This was an unplanned field trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. We happened to be passing by it and decided to stop and tour the museum. It's about $30 per person for adult admission, $25 for children. There is an indoor museum, an outdoor tram ride and a display with one of the space shuttles, a plane and a rocket.
I'm going to be very honest and say this was our least favorite field trip of all time. Frontiers of Flight in Dallas is better. The Space Center was expensive to get into and it was very, very crowded. You could hardly see any of the displays and the noise and visuals were extremely overwhelming. I'm an adult and I was even feeling overwhelmed. It was hard to see any of the displays, because people would stop and pose in front of them to take selfies, etc. It was pretty terrible. The line for the tram was so long that we didn't get to see that part of the tour. Most of the museum was interactive displays, which are impossible with large crowds. It also felt very commercial inside. We felt like the displays were a bit underwhelming, educationally-speaking.
Good thing about the museum...you can touch a rock from the moon and a rock from Mars. The 7 year-old thought this was incredible.
The best part of the trip was we listened to a talk given by astronaut and commander of the space shuttle Discovery Brian Duffy. That was definitely worth seeing and very memorable. Even the 7 year-old sat and listened to the entire presentation. All of the kids agreed that hearing Commander Duffy was the best part of the trip.
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