Little Joe II Rocket

Little Joe II Rocket is a historic site in Harris County, Texas. Little Joe II Rocket is situated nearby to the historic site H-1 Engine, as well as near Mercury Redstone Rocket.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Space Shuttle Independence and Space Center Houston.

Space Shuttle Independence

Photo: Alexrudd, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Space Shuttle Independence, formerly known as Explorer, is a full-scale, high-fidelity replica of the Space Shuttle. It was built by Guard-Lee in Apopka, Florida, installed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 1993, and moved to Space Center Houston in 2012. Space Shuttle Independence is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Little Joe II Rocket.

Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. Space Center Houston is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Little Joe II Rocket.

Johnson Space Center

Research institute

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. Johnson Space Center is situated 3,100 feet north of Little Joe II Rocket.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nassau Bay and Clear Lake.

Nassau Bay

Village

Photo: Mike Fisher, CC BY 2.0.

Nassau Bay is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, bordering the outermost southeastern edge of the city of Houston. It is located in the Clear Lake Area near Galveston Bay, directly adjacent to the Lyndon B.

Clear Lake

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, CC0.

Clear Lake is a district of Houston. It is home to NASA's Johnson Space Center. The area's boating opportunities are considered second only to those of Miami. Fishing, swimming, hiking, and history are also popular activities in the area.

Webster

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Webster is a city in the U.S. state of Texas located in Harris County, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Its population was 12,499 at the 2020 U.S. census.

Little Joe II Rocket

Type: Historic site
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude

29.55467° or 29° 33′ 17″ north

Longitude

-95.09366° or 95° 5′ 37″ west

Open location code

76X6HW34+VG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 641788740

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=rocket

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