Blast off into space from Houston

Space Center Houston is a place where rental bus visitors can experience space, from its dramatic history beginning with the Mercury and Gemini programs, followed by the triumph of the Apollo moon landings, and leading on to its exciting present and compelling future.  Space Center Houston is the only place on Earth that gives rental bus guests an out-of-this-world journey through human adventures into space, and you can easily get there with a bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coach or school bus rented from Bus Companies Houston.

Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) center for human spaceflight activities located in Houston, Texas.  The facility is operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Educational Foundation Incorporated with design input from Walt Disney Imagineering.  Space Center Houston conducts tours of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and offers rental bus visitors several options at various price levels to get an up-close view to life as an astronaut.

The NASA tram tour, included in admission to Space Center Houston, leaves from the space center and takes rental bus visitors on a brief tour of Johnson Space Center.  Stops on the tram vary based on astronaut training schedules and Johnson Space Center policies.  Tours commonly include the historic or current mission control centers, the space vehicle mockup facility and the Saturn V Complex.  Some lucky rental bus tours get the chance to see the neutral buoyancy lab or astronauts training for an upcoming flight.

The Level Nine Tour offers a more extensive, in-depth look at the Johnson Space Center.  It lasts four to five hours and is limited to 12 rental bus guests.  The minimum age for the Level Nine Tour is 14 years.  Stops on the Level Nine Tour include both the current and former mission control centers, the space vehicle mock-up facility, the space environment simulation lab, the neutral buoyancy lab and lunch in the astronaut cafeteria., where astronauts in training and NASA staff, scientists and engineers have their daily meals.

Rental bus visitors to the Space Center can also get a close up look at space artifacts and rockets such as the Mercury 9 capsule, Gemini 5 capsule, Apollo 17 command module, Lunar Rover Vehicle trainer, Skylab trainer mock-up, and Lunar Module Test Article 8.  A restored Saturn V, on loan from the Smithsonian, is on display after it sat exposed to outdoor elements from 1977 through 2004, leading to exterior weather damage and plants, molds, and small animals inside the stages. In 2004 the Smithsonian took over and began efforts to restore the vehicle.

For all your travel needs in Houston and Texas, give Bus Companies Houston a call to find out how they can help you plan your trip with a selection from their fleet of fully equipped rental buses and friendly, personalized service.