Today we continue our Maryland month, visiting the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, located on the NASA campus is Greenbelt, Maryland. There is a Greenbelt Metro Station on the Green Line not far from the Space Flight Center, and you could take a cab easily to the Visitor's Center from it, but if you have a car, or rent a car, we think this is worth renting a car for.

Julie and Mark enter the Visitor's center and turn left, to view some photographs around the auditorium. These are pretty amazing photographs from space. We're particularly impressed by V-838 Mon. (3:13)

We play Fly, Baby Right Now, by DC area band the sketches. The music comes to us courtesy of Garageband.com (9:26)

We head into the main part of the center and talk about Robert Goddard, after whom this space center is named. We visit some exhibits along one wall of the center, including one on Ozone. (12:43)

In the center of the Visitor's Center, we visit an exhibit on Galaxies. (19:41)

We climb into a Gemini capsule, and check out the "modern, space-aged" controls from forty years ago. (23:13)

We check ourselves out in the telescope mirrors, and visit the Planets exhibit. (24:39)

Once out in the rocket garden, Mark expresses some confusion about what exactly a rocket garden is. We visit the historic rockets. (25:54)

We finish up with a visit to the gift shop. (32:03)

We have new email addresses:

• feedback@washingtontravelcast.net
• Julie@washingtontravelcast.net
• Mark@washingtontravelcast.net

Our Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans and our walking music today was from Find Me by H. Logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.

Take the tour with us! Pictures of Rockets and spaceships can be found on our Goddard Space Flight Center Photo Album.