Tour & Events -- ANS / Conferences / Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2025) / Tour & Events

*Do not attend this event if you have any outstanding legal issues. Anyone with an outstanding warrant, even for a parking ticket, will be detained.

Cost: $50

Capacity: 50 people

Lunch will not be provided

NASA Bus Tour Rules

No outstanding warrants or other possible issues:
1. Active warrant for their arrest
2. Registered Sex Offender
3. Barred from Redstone Arsenal or any other Department of Defense installation
All participants MUST be U.S. Citizens
Government issued photo ID is required for all guests 16 and older
No large bags or back packs
All bags subject to inspection
No food or drinks
Bathrooms not readily available
No weapons allowed
Limited Photo and video opportunities

Tour Stops
Payload Operations Integration Center The Payload Operations Integration Center is the 24/7 command post for research and technology activities on the International Space Station. The POIC manages all U.S. science, coordinates with international partners, and trains astronauts and ground team flight controllers.
Propulsion Research and Development Lab The lab is the hub for advanced propulsion research and technology development. Highlights from its exhibit gallery include Marshall Space Flight Center's work on landers and the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine. The Space Nuclear Propulsion Office will also have items displayed. Outside of the lab building is Propulsion Park, which includes a nuclear NERVA XE’’ engine, space shuttle solid rocket booster, aerospike engine, and F-1 engine.
Environmental Control and Life Support System NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is responsible for the design, construction, and testing of regenerative life support hardware for the International Space Station, known as the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). Attendees will get to view modules that simulate the space station environment and examples of hardware that support the ECLSS.
Redstone Test Stand The original test stand for the Redstone and Jupiter-C rockets. The site includes a blockhouse made of three rail tankers welded together and buried underground - this is where Wernher von Braun and his team observed and controlled engine test firings.

Tour Stops

Payload Operations Integration Center

The Payload Operations Integration Center is the 24/7 command post for research and technology activities on the International Space Station. The POIC manages all U.S. science, coordinates with international partners, and trains astronauts and ground team flight controllers.

Propulsion Research and Development Lab

The lab is the hub for advanced propulsion research and technology development. Highlights from its exhibit gallery include Marshall Space Flight Center's work on landers and the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine. The Space Nuclear Propulsion Office will also have items displayed. Outside of the lab building is Propulsion Park, which includes a nuclear NERVA XE’’ engine, space shuttle solid rocket booster, aerospike engine, and F-1 engine.

Environmental Control and Life Support System

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is responsible for the design, construction, and testing of regenerative life support hardware for the International Space Station, known as the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). Attendees will get to view modules that simulate the space station environment and examples of hardware that support the ECLSS.

Redstone Test Stand

The original test stand for the Redstone and Jupiter-C rockets. The site includes a blockhouse made of three rail tankers welded together and buried underground - this is where Wernher von Braun and his team observed and controlled engine test firings.