​Go for Flight — a sneak-peek into being a astronaut from the Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA launched Go for Flight in 2018, which allows people to tour the Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) without being an astronaut or travelling all the way to the US. The 3-D virtual tour is available through Google Expeditions — an simple app that you can download on your phone.

On the tour you can see the Dale Reed Flight Research Laboratory, X-57 flight simulator, the AFRC engine shop, the Dryden Aeronautical Range room and, finally, the center’s aircraft ramp.

Essentially, it’s a walk through of what it would be like to be an astronaut — before you actually take off from Earth. Everything from how a mission in space would be monitored on Earth, the gear needed before take-off and the subsequent launch.