Houston Space Center Ticket With NASA Expert Guide & Transport
Description
With this combo package, enjoy round-trip transportation and general admission tickets to Space Center Houston with your NASA-expert guide who will navigate your group through the Space Center's most noteworthy exhibits, presentation theaters, and the amazing "Rocket Park". During this 5 hour daily excursion, our expert guide will have you experiencing Space Center Houston like a true NASA All-Star including boarding a 905 Space Shuttle, seeing a live presentation from a real-life NASA astronaut currently stationed at the International Space Station, learning about the possibilities beyond planet Earth with the Starship Gallery displays, marveling at the future of special travel with the futuristic Artemis exhibit, and riding the trams! With so many amazing things including the Saturn V Rocket, one-of-a-kind Independence Plaza, and stargazing Starship Gallery, your NASA-expert guide can also take group photos for memories to last a lifetime!
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Itinerary
Please meet for check-in outside the Bank of America Tower (Capitol St. side) about 5 minutes before your departure time. Look for NASA shuttle to arrive in front of the giant, colorful Miro sculpture
Travelers will have about 5 hours to explore and enjoy the NASA Space Center with local Expert Guide before being picked up at the Space Center's front entrance / drop-off point. There is a 15-minute pick-up window.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- SHUTTLE PICK-UP POINT: Bank of America Tower, 800 Capitol St, Houston, TX 77002, USA.
- To book the optional Mission Control tram tour in advance, please contact us to purchase tickets (limited availability need to book at least 48 - 72 hours in advance).
- Tram Tours at the Space Center are subject to availability determined by NASA dependent on seasonal & staffing factors.
- To best ensure all Tram Tour availability, we would recommend choosing the earliest (9:30 AM) departures.
- In the event of bad weather, travelers may opt to reschedule for another date free of charge at their own discretion.
- The NASA Historic Mission Control tram tour included with select packages is non-refundable and can be cancelled by NASA due to inclement weather.
- Failure to arrive on time may result in a postponed tour subject to tour availability or an abandoned tour if we do not hear from you in advance of the scheduled start time.
- Children below age of 6 are welcome to join the tour but require their own valid ticket.
- Not recommended for travelers with limited mobility or require frequent stops
Reviews(229)
Visited Space Centre Houston today. Space Centre Houston is NASA's development and training center. This is in contrast to Kennedy Space Centre in Florida where the rockets and space shuttles are launched. You can look inside a space shuttle and also see how the astronauts live in space. A beautiful and educational center.
Mike our driver was fabulous. So happy and considerate. Meredith our guide at the space center was nice and positive but…. She lost track of people several times, me three times, and talked very fast and frenetically and after some time I had to break off from the group because she wouldn’t stop talking and it was one o’clock and she hadn’t given us a chance to grab some lunch. I’m grateful for the tour and direction but not pleased with her as a guide
NASA space center is a MUST SEE in Houston. The meeting place was easy to find. Our expert tour guide was friendly and very knowledgeable. Especially regard space-related issues, having an expert guide made all the different in understanding and appreciating the objects displayed.
For everything related to the transportation I have no complaints. However, I puchased the guided experience, but when we arrived to the Space Center with the rest of the group that was having one of the guided tours, they told me that me and my dad weren't included in the list. They told us that we could wait for the next group and join them, but we needed to wait for almost an hour for that. We ended up just exploring by ourselves with no guide at all, which was by no means a bad experience because the Space Center is awesome, but we did pay full price for a service that we didn't recieve. I'm re-uploading this review because the last time I posted it the Business replied stating that I purchased a package that only included transportation and didn't include the "Expert" guide. So, I'm attaching evidence of my reservation, where ir clearly indicates which package I purchased and that it included a guided visit with an English-speaking "expert".
Guide and shuttle are friendly and helpful! 10/10
We experienced bad weather and weren’t able to view many of the sights included with our ticket. However, Meredith the guide more than made up for what we weren’t able to see. She was fantastic! Really knowledgeable, made the experience enjoyable, and her connections to NASA were fascinating. Mike, our driver, was also excellent.
Meredith was a fantastic tour guide and helped make our NASA trip an informative and fun one! Would strongly recommend taking the tour with her.
Our guide was polite, but I felt inexperienced in addressing and controlling a large group. It was difficult to hear what she was saying at times during the tour. It would help if a microphone and ear pieces were used. Perhaps these devices are banned at the Space Centre as no one was using them?
Meredith was a great tour guide and really made the experience so much easier than having to try and navigate the JSC on your own. Meredith is well connected and very passionate about NASA. She has some really great insights into the JSC. It was very busy because of visiting World Cup fans but we got to see everything because we were on the tour and had a bit of time at the end before our 3pm pick up and short journey back to downtown Houston. We definitely picked the right way to get the most out of our visit.
We enjoyed NASA. The air conditioned bus was on time and easy to find. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and friendly and went out of her way to make sure we saw as much as possible. Make sure you book the control room experience (it sells out so book as early as possible)- it's extra but it was our highlight. The bus back was again easy to find and on time. The driver was excellent and the whole day was well managed.
