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Space Center Houston is the official visitor center of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center—the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) center for human spaceflight activities—located in Houston, Texas. The facility is operated by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Educational Foundation Incorporated with design input from Walt Disney Imagineering.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.spacecenter.org/AboutUsMSFEFIHistory.html )〕 and designed by award winning experience designer Bob Rogers (designer) and the design team BRC Imagination Arts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Ace of Space : Contracts: Launched to fame by his work on Disney's Epcot, Bob Rogers is helping design NASA's $70-million tourist center. )〕 ==Space hardware== Space Center Houston is home to space artifacts and hardware including: *Mercury 9 capsule (''Faith 7'') *Gemini 5 capsule *Apollo 17 command module *Lunar Rover Vehicle trainer *Skylab trainer mock-up *Lunar Module Test Article 8 *Saturn V These artifacts (except Skylab) were formerly housed in the Johnson Space Center's former Visitor Center in Building 2. A restored Saturn V, on loan from the Smithsonian, is on display after it sat exposed to outdoor elements from 1977 through 2004, leading to exterior weather damage and plants, molds, and small animals inside the stages. In 2004 the Smithsonian took over and began efforts to restore the vehicle through a grant from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program and the National Trust for Historic Preservation along with private contributions On July 31, 2013, the Space Center formally unveiled the restored full-scale Shuttlecraft mockup from ''Star Trek: The Original Series''. The Space Center is also the home of the mockup. Formerly known as ''Explorer'', ''Independence'' was previously located at the Kennedy Space Center, but was moved to make way for a new permanent attraction hall for . ''Independence'' is now displayed atop the retired Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, NASA 905. On August 14, 2014, a heavy lift was completed to place ''Independence'' on top of NASA 905, which had been moved to Space Center Houston from Ellington Field on April 30, 2014. The center plans to open the combined exhibit in 2015 at an estimated cost of . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Space Center Houston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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