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The official Visitor Center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Space Center Houston is located around 25 miles southeast of the city on the western side of Clear Lake. It is the most important tourist attractions in the city. It is a home of the globally-known Mission Control, which is the monitoring center for all the manned space flights of NASA. The center boasts an interesting space exhibition with film shows, samples of moon rocks, models of space capsules, astronaut's rations, and an array of objects collected during Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo space programs.

Opened in 1909, Houston Museum of Natural Science boasts exhibits allowing visitors to explore science and nature from the time of dinosaur right up to the space age. Besides its arrayed collections of dinosaur bones, fossils, and ancient artifacts from North America and Egypt, Houston Museum of Natural Science also has a butterfly center, a planetarium, and an extensive movie screen.

One of the largest fine art museums in the country, the Museum of Fine Arts boasts a vast assortment of European, American, Far Eastern, and African art spanning about 6,000 years. Major highlights of its over 63,000 works comprise of French Impressionist and Italian Renaissance paintings, European and American decorative arts, a remarkable assortment of African and pre-Columbian gold, and scores of fine sculptures.

One of the star attractions of the city, Houston Zoo is located on 55 acres in Hermann Park. This zoo houses over 6,000 exotic and indigenous animals and boasts an education center and children's zoo. The major highlights of Houston Zoo include exploring marine life from close in aquarium, feeding the giraffes, and watching sea lions and otters frolicking.