Houston

The biggest city in Texas and home of the Johnson Space Agency, NASA. From here all the American space missions, including the landing of the first men on the moon in 1969, were controlled. The museum has many of the original spacecraft and samples of moon rock that were collected. The site is huge and is still the headquarters of the space mission, employing 14,000 people. At the moment they are planning an unmanned mission to Mars! This is very near the famous battle of El Jacinto and also the centre of Japanese immigrant settlement in the 19th century as they could grow rice here. We stood in the space command centre, next to a saturn rocket and touched moon rock!