My Birthday. Part 2 Rocket Park

The last time we went to NASA we discovered you can go to the Rocket Park portion for free. And since that was the best part of the place anyway (unless you're Sean and get an awesome backstage tour), we thought we'd go again.

Here's Sean introducing the boys to the Rocket Park while I stayed in the car to feed Grey.

[ rocket park from Katie Bradley on Vimeo.]

Heehee, the way Liam just took off running makes me giggle.

The Saturn V rocket is enormous. So much rocket power is needed to get a few people to the moon. I couldn't even get it in one shot with the lens I was using. So here I am at the back looking toward the front.

And now I'm at the front looking towards the back. Huge.

Can you imagine all the work it took to make a rocket like this work? Mind boggling.

So much fire. I think it's a three stage rocket.

Standing on the back end felt kind of like standing behind a horse- uhh, let me move aside.

What a lovely shade of marigold they've chosen.

In case they met any moon aliens, they'd know from which country the earthlings hailed.

Grey and I are being space walkers. Dash just really wants to hold my hand.

Dash is showing us a moon run. It looks surprisingly like his normal, earth-bound run.

Here's Liam being a... pensive astronaut? I don't know, I got nothin.

Look, there's more rockets!

Again, in case you forgot, we're American.

My kids made themselves at home in the rockets.

Here's astronaut Sean on his way to the capsule. (are Liam and Dash twins or what?)

And the twinners heading to the capsule, less serious-like.

And for souvenirs, Rocket Park rocks. We're going to sell them on ebay. We'll be millionaires!

Next stop, Kemah Boardwalk!