Blast off on a Space Adventure!

Great Lakes Science Center is the new official site of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center. Phase One, which features more than 50 exhibits and artifacts, is now open and wok on the highly anticipated second phase of the Visitor Center is currently underway. When fully complete in 2011, the new NASA Glenn Visitor Center will feature an exciting blend of NASA artifacts and new, highly interactive exhibits focusing on aeronautics, scientific discovery and space exploration

Skylab 3 Apollo Command Module

• See the newest addition to the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, the massive Skylab 3 Command Module that is displayed prominently in the entrance to the NASA exhibits!
• Learn the history of the space capsule when it was used in 1973 to take three astronauts to the Apollo Space Station and then return them to Earth 60 days later.
• View the 12,800 pound, fully intact capsule that is sure to be a substantial piece of history you don't want to miss!

• Interact with NASA's website and watch NASA TV, the space agency's own television network!
• Experience the sights and sounds of different rocket launches throughout America's history.
• Build a spacecraft and test how it would handle the stresses of a launch with our mechanical vibration simulator!
• Become a pilot for the day as you land a shuttle and fly a plane in our NASA flight simulators!

• See models of rockets, shuttle engines, lunar landers and more!
• Get a glimpse of a larger-than-life solar panel that was used in testing at the NASA Glenn Research Center in 1995.
• Take a step back in time and see a real spacesuit, worn by astronaut Paul Weitz when he took a spacewalk outside the space station Skylab in 1973!

• Learn about the future of space travel and create your own lunar base with wooden blocks!
• Become an astronaut as you maneuver a remote-controlled lunar rover around rocks on our model of the moon's surface.
• See a map of NASA's lunar lander sites and look at lunar soil simulants through a microscope!