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4Frontiers offers custom tour packages for audiences interested in space, technology and culture. Our broad space-industry network provides us access to behind-the-scenes tours and other unique experiences unavailable through traditional travel agents. Working hand-in-hand with your youth group, school, club or other organization, we can create an experience for you that is truly out of this world!
Our specialists will work with your group to:
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Create a custom tour package,
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Book all tour elements (including airfare, local transportation, accommodations, and all attraction reservations),
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Provide a detailed itinerary (including directions, contact numbers and other pertinent information), and;
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Provide any needed assistance during the trip to ensure your group has the best possible experience.
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US Space & Culture Tours
Meet real astronauts at the Johnson & Kennedy Space Centers
Get up close and personal with an experimental plasma rocket
Visit the cultural icons of New York City and Washington DC
…and much, much more, with 4Frontiers’ US Space & Culture Tours.
4Frontiers currently offers group experiences in four US cities, and can also offer other locations based on your group’s interests.
Some of the attractions available in each city include:
Houston, Texas:
- Behind-the-scenes tour: Ad Astra Rocket Company – See a plasma rocket in development and interact with the researchers creating the technology
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Space Center Houston – Official visitor complex of Johnson Space Center
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Behind-the-scenes (Level 9) tour: Johnson Space Center
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Enrichment Classes (1 hour): Bone Loss in Space (Biology), 3-2-1 Liftoff (Chemistry), Build a Robotic Arm (Physics)
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Space School at Space Center Houston (1 week long)
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Special Presentations by NASA astronauts and technical specialists
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Lone Star Flight Museum – Historic & vintage aircraft
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Moody Gardens – 3-D theaters, IMAX movies, and more attractions
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Shopping at local malls and shopping centers
New York City, New York:
- Rose Center for Earth & Space and Hayden Planetarium
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Empire State Building – Observatory
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of the City of New York
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Rockefeller Center & NBC Studios Tour
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Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
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United Nations Guided Tour
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Shopping & attractions in Times Square
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Bus Tour of Manhattan & Harbor Cruise
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Speedboat ride in Manhattan harbor
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New York City Duck Tour (an amphibious tour on land and sea)
Orlando, Florida
- Kennedy Space Center – Visitor complex & tours of launch facilities
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Lunch with an Astronaut at Kennedy Space Center
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Settlement of Mars – a presentation by 4Frontiers
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Astronaut Training Program at Kennedy Space Center (1 day long)
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Walt Disney World – Including the Mission Space experience at Epcot
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Dynamics of Technology – Exclusive pre-opening student experience at Mission Space
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Discovery Cove – All day experience including a diving with dolphins
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Gatorland – Get up close and personal with alligators and crocodiles
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Ripley’s Believe it or Not – Orlando Odditorium
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Sea World – See killer whales and other aquatic animals
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Aquatica at SeaWorld – An incredible water park
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Shopping, restaurants & entertainment at Downtown Disney
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Shopping at the Florida Mall and/or the Mall at Millennia
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SkyVenture Orlando – Indoor skydiving experience
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Universal Studios & Islands of Adventure
Washington, DC
- Smithsonian Air & Space Museum – See incredible aircraft and spacecraft including the Bell 1 (first supersonic aircraft), Apollo 11 command module, SpaceShipOne (winner of the Ansari Xprize), and much more
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Smithsonian Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport – The latest addition to the Air & Space Museum – Includes an SR-71 Blackbird, the Space Shuttle Enterprise, a Concorde, and much more
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NASA Headquarters – Photo opportunity & gift shop
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Washington Monument
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Jefferson Memorial
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Lincoln Memorial
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White House Visitor Center
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Tour of the US Capital Building
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Supreme Court Building
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Library of Congress
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Holocaust Museum
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Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian)
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian)
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National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
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National Museum of American History, Behring Center (Smithsonian)
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National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian)
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National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)
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National Postal Museum (Smithsonian)
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S. Dillon Ripley Center, International Gallery (Smithsonian)
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American Art Museum (Smithsonian)
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Anacostia Community Museum (Smithsonian)
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National Zoological Park (Smithsonian)
More cities & attractions coming soon!
In Development: India Space & Culture Tours
4Frontiers has partnered with several entities to develop space and culture tours within India, including unprecedented access to launch, operations and development facilities of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). More information coming soon.
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