Add On Historic Mission Control Tram

Service Description

This is an independent NASA-operated tour offered onsite during your visit at the Space Center as an optional add-on experience (description below). As such, boarding tickets for the Mission Control Tram Tour are subject to very limited availability and typically should be booked at least 72 hours in advance during non-peak seasons and 2 weeks in advance during peak seasons such as holidays & spring break. ** IMPORTANT: All guests must book a NASA transport/ticket package either directly on our website or via a third-party booking provider website to purchase the Historic Mission Control Tram add-on tour. The sole purchase of a Historic Mission Control Tram add-on tour by itself is NOT permitted and will automatically be voided if the customer cannot provide the relevant ** ** Upon booking this add-on tour with our NASA shuttle service of your choice, we will handle scheduling & purchasing the Mission Control boarding tickets directly from NASA along with providing them to you on the day of your Space Center trip ** ** For guests who will be doing the NASA Mission Control Tour as an add-on to our Deluxe NASA-expert guided tour, we would recommend choosing either the 1:20 PM or 2:00 PM Mission Control tram tour which would allow you to maximize your time with your NASA-expert guide and permit some time for lunch and your gift shop visit before boarding the Mission Control tram ** As the world watched the outcome of Apollo 11, the first attempted lunar landing, employees in the NASA Mission Control Center held their breaths during the entire descent. Everyone anxiously awaited the confirmation of a safe arrival from its Apollo crew. At approximately 3:18 p.m. (CT) on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s famous words were forever ingrained in history: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” This is the facility where NASA monitored nine Gemini and all Apollo lunar missions, including the historic Apollo 11 trip to the Moon and the final Apollo 17 trip to the same lunar body. It is located in Building 30 of NASA Johnson Space Center. In fact, from this room, the NASA team exercised full mission control of Apollo 11 from launch at the Kennedy Space Center to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. You can feel the history in the room from the monitors to the rotary dials. The Gemini and Apollo space programs were only the beginning for mission control; it has been the center for all communications between Earth and our human spaceflight missions.