Houston is the 4th largest city in USA and a modern metropolis with numerous tourist attractions, luxurious hotels, skyscraper buildings and commercial complexes. It is also the leading port of the state of Texas.
The NASA Space Center in Houston is an aviation museum and the center for monitoring all space flights manned by NASA. The museum displays models of space capsules, a variety of objects from Gemini, Mercury and Apollo manned space programs.
The interactive exhibits also include the chance of meeting a real astronaut and steering a spacecraft in the simulator. Astrodomain is another popular tourist attraction which encompasses a huge air conditioned complex with an aquatic water park next to it.
There are a number of parks, museums, galleries and gardens in Houston such as the Blaffer Gallery, Sam Houston Historical Park, Tranquility Park, Houston Zoological gardens, Museum of Fine Arts, Holocaust Museum, Fire Museum, Children's museum, Railroad museum and more.
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