The Rocket Park

This weekend my son and I had the amazing experience of getting to camp overnight at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Along with about 100 other kids and family members, we got to have dinner with 4x Space Shuttle astronaut, Mike Baker, do all kinds of fun STEM activities, and get a tour of some amazing facilities and space relics. I took basically a million pictures. I'll post more as I process them, but in the meantime here are a bunch of detail photos from the Rocket Park, where they have a collection of historic rockets-- including a Mercury Redstone rocket and the only remaining flight ready Saturn V rocket left in the world.

Something about these historical items in a sparse warehouse setting, combined with the broad, sweeping geometric shapes adorned with incredibly complex wiring and piping that really got my tech heart aflutter. The pictures really don't do justice to the impossibly large scale of all these rocket stages. It's pretty incredible to see in person. Highly recommended.

Houston, Tx.
Leica M10-P + Thypoch 28mm ƒ/1.4 Simera