Sept. 11 - Wednesday

In Galveston - woke up and watched some of the 9-11-01 footage on TV before going down to breakfast.  Checked out (yay) and stopped to get the car washed on our way out of town.  It was covered with salt spray, the windows had a film on them.

Headed north to the NASA Space Center.  They open at 10:00, we were there shortly after that, nice to have a near empty parking lot.   They suggested we take the Tram first, a 1 1/2 hour tour of Mission Control (like the one you see in Apollo 13 movie), the Astronaut Training Center and to see the Saturn 5 rocket.  Very interesting, especially to the former aspiring astronaut I was with.  Back to the Center, we went to the Starship Gallery next and then looked at all the exhibits.
www.spacecenter.org

Mid-afternoon we headed for home.  We decided to just take I-45 right through Houston, not knowing how that would be.  Perfect timing, I guess, we made it through in 1 hour!  Gary said it is one of the easiest drives he has had in a big city.  Thank goodness!

We stopped in Cut-n-Shoot at a bank to get my signature notarized for some benefits papers Gary had to send in.  Then we were home, for a relaxing evening.   A successful day of sightseeing!

Shuttle spaceship commander

New test robot at NASA

Exhibit in the Starship Gallery

The Shuttle is on display, they are going to add the 747 there