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Enhance Your Field Trip

Explore two ways to throw your Space Center Houston field trip into hyperdrive!

Inspire your students to pursue STEM through engaging activities and one-of-a-kind experiences. Tour flown spacecraft in our Starship Gallery and engage in hands-on STEM learning in our classroom experiences.

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Starship Gallery Tours

The private group tour begins with Robert Goddard’s liquid fueled rocket and progresses through the timeline of human space exploration. Students see authentic flown spacecraft and follow the space race and subsequent development of international cooperation. Future explorers may touch a Moon rock and get close up views and stories of these national treasures.

  • Topics: History of space exploration, rocketry, planetary geology
  • Suggested level: All levels

Starship Gallery field trip enhancement is $5 per guest with a minimum of 20 students or $100. Additional tickets for students and adults are available for $5. Starship Gallery Tours are available for kindergarten through twelfth grade. The tour presentations are 10:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.

Tours must be booked at least four (4) weeks in advance.

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STEM Classroom Experiences

Students investigate Newton’s Laws of Motion and rocketry by completing their mission of a safe and successful launch. Teams will design, build and launch rockets and collect data on the rocket’s flight trajectory and distance. The young engineers will then modify their designs to make their rockets go further and/or change trajectory.

  • Topics: Teamwork, engineering design, Newton’s laws of force and motion
  • Suggested level: Foam rockets: 4-12
  • Related center exhibits: Mission Mars, Starship Gallery, Rocket Park

STEM experiences are $7 per participant. There is a minimum of 15 and maximum of 25 participants per session. Sessions are offered Monday through Friday at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., and 1:30 p.m. 

Sessions must be booked at least four (4) weeks in advance.

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Planetarium Show

Take a tour of our solar system and neighboring galaxies in our planetarium show experience. Through our state of the art planetarium software, students will explore the stars and learn
more about the inner working of our solar system and beyond!

Suggested level K-12.

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Carbon Capture Challenge

In this private classroom experience, students explore the difficulties of keeping astronauts alive in space through the question: how do we supply astronauts with oxygen in space?

This lab activity models how CO₂ generation affects
temperature in a closed environment. Any environment humans occupy will eventually increase in CO₂, which if left unchecked can lead to carbon dioxide poisoning.

The Carbon Capture lab helps students understand how this affects temperature in a closed system and how we can capture that carbon to re-filter it into breathable air.

Recommended level 8th-12th grade.

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Moon 2 Mars Festival is back!

Tickets on sale now | March 13 - 16

The All-American Rejects are throwing Space Center Houston’s Moon 2 Mars Festival into hyperdrive. Amp up your Space City Spring Break with us!

Access to this all-ages festival is included in general admission.

Early Closure | April 29, 2025

Space Center Houston will close at 3 p.m. CT on Tuesday, April 29. Understand how this will impact your visit.

WEATHER ALERT

Closed Jan. 21 & 22, 2025

For the safety of our guests and staff, Space Center Houston is closed on Tuesday, January 21 and Wednesday, January 22 due to forecasted inclement weather.

We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to welcoming you soon! For questions or concerns, contact our Reservations team with your order number at 281.283.4755 or via email.