We are happy to bring you,
from Johnson Space Center,
a live tour of the International Space Station
mockup and training facility.

Welcome to our regularly scheduled tour of the International Space Station mockup and training facility. Each month (on the 3rd Wednesday of the month) you are invited to join our tour guide at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. You will be able to ask your questions during the tour and have them answered during the event. If you are not able to join us this month, we hope you can make next month's tour.

Tour dates and time:

• April 21, 1999 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific (1:00 - 2:00 Eastern)

Johnson Space Center is the center for manned spaceflight and headquarters for the International Space Station Program. JSC is the home of America's astronauts. In this role JSC has the responsibility for training the astronauts and flight controller teams that support manned missions.

Astronaut flight crews for Space Shuttle flights and upcoming Space Station missions receive most of their hands-on training in flight simulators and full-size mockups at JSC. One of the facilities where this type of training is performed is called the Space Station Mockup and Training Facility (SSMTF). The Space Station's mockups of major habitable modules in this facility include the United States Laboratory module, the Crew Habitational Module, two interconnection modules (called Nodes) and the Air-Lock Module. These mockups are presently used for engineering evaluation and later will be used for training the Space Station astronauts.

In order to prepare for this exciting event you may want to visit the International Space Station web site.

To Attend this Event

In advance of attending the Event you will need to have Downloaded RealPlayer.
(This is the application which allows you to hear and/or view the events.)

After you have downloaded and installed the RealPlayer on your computer.
• Click here to open the RealAudio Player.
  The event will begin at the specified time on the schedule.
  RealAudio Player will give you only an audio playback of the event.

• Click here to open RealVideo Player.
  The event will begin at the specified time.
  RealVideo Player will give you both an audio and video playback of the event.

  (If you hear something on your player prior to the event, it is probably an interim NASA TV program.)

• After you have opened RealPlayer (as directed above), open the Chat Room
  This is where you will post your questions to the experts featured in the event. Since the Room remains in Moderation until the time of the event, you will not see your question on the screen. However, it has been received and is waiting in the Moderation Room until the time of the event when it will be posted by the Moderator.

• After the event is over please give us your feedback by completing the LTC Online survey:

Visit an archive of a past tour

• RealVideo
• Download the RealVideo clip (8 MB)