NASA Glenn Visitor Center

The NASA Glenn Visitor Center is not a building of its own. It is a gallery area inside Great Lakes Science Center at 601 Erieside Avenue in Cleveland, between the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Huntington Bank Field, and NASA itself confirms this, calling the Science Center home of the NASA Glenn Visitor Center and one of only 11 NASA visitor centers in the country. That matters for a visit, because every practical thing, parking, entrances, restrooms, elevators and food, is run by Great Lakes Science Center, a non-profit, and all of it is published on its pages rather than NASA's. The visitor center holds the Explore, Discover and Living In Space galleries and the Apollo Command Module from the 1973 Skylab 3 mission, which travelled 26.5 million miles and which visitors can look inside, alongside artifacts from John Glenn's Friendship 7 flight and a real moon rock.

The Science Center's own building map puts the NASA Glenn Visitor Center and the Apollo Capsule on Level 1, which the map labels Street Level, on the same floor as the main entrance, box office, information desk and the DOME Theater entrance, with an elevator and an escalator drawn alongside. The Science Center describes the whole building, including the Cleveland Clinic DOME Theater, as fully wheelchair accessible. It lends wheelchairs free, gives a caregiver free admission, runs a sensory regulating room on Level 2 and a museum-wide sensory sensitive morning every Sunday, and states that all restrooms are ADA accessible. One exclusion is published plainly: the Steamship William G. Mather, which has its own ticket, is not wheelchair accessible because of its historic nature.