NASA Johnson Space Center

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"On a research trip for Atmosphere, I spent the majority of my Houston visit on a very long VIP tour of the Johnson Space Center, which was incredible. If you're interested in NASA or space exploration—or specifically mission control—I highly recommend the tour I did into the Apollo-era mission control, where we saw not just the telemetry but the desks and the theater behind it; we also stood in the theater of the current ISS mission control and looked out onto that floor. The visit included going inside a decommissioned Space Shuttle to explore the mid-deck and the payload bay, and even the short walk from the motel across the street taught me about how Houston's humid air and daily rhythms feel different from Los Angeles, notes I wrote down to capture the atmosphere." - Kaitlin Menza