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Space Center Houston: Interactive NASA Experience Plus City Tour
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Houston
Embark on an interactive NASA experience at Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Explore space artifacts, see real astronauts at work, and take a city tour of Houston.
Embark on an interactive NASA experience at Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Explore space artifacts, see real astronauts at work, and take a city tour of Houston.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Houston City Tours - Start your tour at a Cowboy-themed Visitor Center, complete with Texas heritage artifacts and photo opportunities. In the waiting area, you’ll find a coffee shop and souvenirs.
- Discovery Green - See this beautiful urban park located in the heart of the GRB convention center area.
- Minute Maid Park - See the home of…
- Houston City Tours - Start your tour at a Cowboy-themed Visitor Center, complete with Texas heritage artifacts and photo opportunities. In the waiting area, you’ll find a coffee shop and souvenirs.
- Discovery Green - See this beautiful urban park located in the heart of the GRB convention center area.
- Minute Maid Park - See the home of the 2017 World Series Champions, the Houston Astros.
- Downtown Historic District Market Square - Discover this historic Old Union square - an old place for commerce, a new place for art.
- Tranquility Park - Built to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. It includes walkways, pools, and cylindrical water fountains.
- Downtown Aquarium - Place for an adventurous and immersive experience in dining and activities
- Sam Houston Park - Dedicated to the buildings and culture of Houston’s past. The park, which was the first to be established in the city, was developed on land purchased by former Mayor Sam Brashier in 1900.
- Space Center Houston - Lastly, make your way to Space Center Houston. Discover the exciting future and remarkable past of America’s human spaceflight program set among the largest collection of space artifacts in the southwestern United States. Also discover amazing new attractions.
Guided tram tour is included in your admission tickets.
What's Included
- Transportation to NASA Space Center and admission ticket
- Guided tram tour at Space Center
- 75-minute Houston city tour
- Tour map and orientation
- Transportation to NASA Space Center and admission ticket
- Guided tram tour at Space Center
- 75-minute Houston city tour
- Tour map and orientation
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information
Following your fantastic tour of Houston city, carry on the thrill with a trip to Space Center Houston, the official visitor center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center where an orientation tour awaits on a tram ride. Being one of the prime attractions in Houston, Space Center Houston features a variety of interactive displays ranging from space artifacts to…
Following your fantastic tour of Houston city, carry on the thrill with a trip to Space Center Houston, the official visitor center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center where an orientation tour awaits on a tram ride. Being one of the prime attractions in Houston, Space Center Houston features a variety of interactive displays ranging from space artifacts to a full-size rocket and space shuttle. Witness real astronauts at work at the NASA facility and engage yourself in the wonders of space exploration with amazing hands-on exhibits. Your day will also include a 75-minute open-top bus tour of Houston city before your visit.
- Driving time to and from the Space Center may vary due to high traffic and road construction (Space Center is 26+ miles from the city)
- Collapsible wheelchairs with removable wheels can be accommodated providing the passenger is accompanied by someone who can assist them board and disembark.
Location
1302 Dallas St
Dallas Street
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(648 Ratings)
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772tracyn
Oct 11, 2024
Fascinating! - It was fascinating! The history took me back to my childhood and the plans for Artemis lifted my spirits for the future. I highly recommend visiting the center and seeing as much as you can.
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Iwishtotravelmore
Oct 8, 2024
NASA excellent tour and Bus tour good into to Houston - We did the bus tour followed by the NASA visit. Both were great - but I would recommend doing them separately as we needed more time at NASA as we didn't get to see all we needed and that was on a day with no queues. Loved Nasa - and they have wheelchairs to borrow for people like me - and everything was accessible - bus dropped me right at the entrance so only a small bit to walk before going in and borrowing a wheelchair. NASA was excellent so recommend this. We would recommend going to Nasa in the morning so you don't have to rush it and do the city tour another day.
City tour driver was friendly, informative and helpful (sorry I cannot remember her name) and a good intro to Houston. Saw great street art and liked hearing the history. At the end answered our questions re places to go and showed us where we could access the tunnels for exploring via them.
Also note that the tourist center where the tour starts makes great coffee - (we are not fans of American coffee so relieved this place made decent lattes !)
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Joy_a
Oct 5, 2024
Excellent Tour - This tour package is worth the price. City Tour was great! Antonio did an excellent job. The pickup was on time!
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Ken_b
Sep 29, 2024
Rather them than me. - This was a great experience. We did two tram tours within the facility, checking out where the astronauts train for their missions and, Rocket Park which has a full-sized Saturn V in the display. Quite sobering.
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Ian_i
Sep 29, 2024
Houston is a great city to visit. - We loved the city bus tour. Great way to see such a large city and get some history too. Its about 4 hours at NASA so plan accordingly but there's plenty to do.
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Jeannette_d
Sep 28, 2024
Friendly - All of the staff were super nice and friendly!! Had a great time! We loved Javier!! The bus tour guide was very knowledgeable of the downtown area!
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Jeremy_b
Sep 26, 2024
Great day out - Very welcoming crew, nicely laid out store. Bus tour was very interesting and provided a great foundation to understanding the city.
Space tour was excellent, lots to do and see.
I’d recommend this tour combo for any and all tourists visiting the city of Houston!
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Charlottegrichards
Sep 23, 2024
Great tour. - We did the open top city tour with Ben was our guide. He was very interesting and amusing telling us about the Downtown area. We then went on to NASA in a coach. It took about 30-40 mins to get there. We knew from our booking that we had two tram tours included which we found on arrival were the rocket park and the astronaut training. The latter was unavailable and we did not realise that the Historic Mission Control was not included. This was the one we wanted to do.
We managed to get the last two tickets at 4.0pm so missed the return coach and elected to make our own way back.
Just be aware of all this.
We had a fantastic day! Highly recommend this tour.
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Sightseer49348267162
Oct 3, 2024
CAR - Very well organised and fantastic friendly staff that helped make the day exciting- NASA tour was a bit rushed but would highly recommend the control tour tour
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Culture34626976556
Sep 25, 2024
Good tour bad driver - The city tour was very nice. Got to see all the interesting places with a good driver and guide. Loved the space center! But the ride to and from the space center was not ok, the driver drove way too fast, breaking and pulling up agressively, maybe ok for a car but not for a van. Everybody on the bus said so. When I told the driver nicely if i could give him some advice to smoothen his driving style.. he bluntly said “I have been driving for years so bye”, rude! He seemed very nervous and his hands were shaking. Did not feel comfortable driving with him.
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