During the 24th day of the AYCJ pass last year, I had the opportunity to listen to the choir rehearsal inside the LDS Convention Center for…

This photo of the red phone without a rotary dial was taken from the Apollo Mission Control Room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston…

Commissioned in 1914 and active during World War I, the USS Texas also served in World War II. While serving in the final campaigns in the Pacific in early 1945, she was in combat more days than on all of her previous stations.

Inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, there are a number of artifacts and pieces of hardware from the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs.  Here are some of them.

The Saturn V rocket at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas is one of three surviving vehicles built to launch American astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. It would have been used during the Apollo 18 mission.

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill bell tower chimes every 15 minutes and plays various songs. Last year, during my AYCJ journey…

This photo was taken from Tranquility Park in Houston, Texas.

The Apollo Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center is one of the stops on the tour.  Designated a national historic landmark, the control room was used to monitor nine Gemini and all of the Apollo flights.  Pneumatic tube canisters were used to send memos throughout NASA.

The Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas is home to mockups that allowed astronauts to train and familiarize themselves with various systems. There are several partial Space Shuttle mockups, a full scale Space Shuttle mockup, International Space Station module mockups, a Russian Soyuz module mockup, and a Canadian robotic arm.