HOUSTON, TX—Talk to an astronaut about their training to fly in space and it won’t be long before they mention "Building 9." That’s the common way of referring to the particular structure at Houston’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) that houses the SVMF, or the "Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility," which is without a doubt one of the coolest places on Earth for a space geek to visit.
It’s been high on my list of places to see for many years, and Ars was granted access shortly before the last major pieces of space shuttle training hardware were removed. With former astronaut Mike Bloomfield as our guide, we crawled and climbed all through the Crew Compartment Trainer II, a life-sized mock-up of the space shuttle’s forward compartment. We took a lot of pictures.
The SVMF
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