Seeing Is Believing: Enormous Shuttle Program Artifact Inspires Wonder

Of course there are pictures — thanks to cellphone cameras and the Internet there are hundreds of pictures taken by astronauts during flight, and hundreds more of rocket launches and views of the cosmos captured by NASA's many observatories. But it is rare that average citizens get to see, in person, the awesomeness of NASA's capabilities. On Saturday (Jan. 23), the Space Center (which is right next door to the Johnson Space Center, home of NASA's mission control), held a grand-opening cer