Schelotto joined Manchester United for a visit to Johnson Space Center

Editorial USA, July 27 (EFE) .- Argentine Guillermo Barros Schelotto and two others selected to the MLS All-Star Team accompanied the team Manchester United, with the exception of manager Alex Ferguson, a visit to Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The players and the whole policy of the England team that faces the morning stars of Major League Soccer United States at Reliant Stadium in Houston, were impressed by the high technology that could find and hard training to undergo the astronauts.

The visit, which lasted over an hour and a half, allowed the players know the whole computer world of the famous Control Center where he addresses various space missions, in addition to seeing as it was in constant communication with members found in the space station.

The expedition was accompanied by Deputy Director of Johnson Space Center, Melanie W. Saunders and former astronaut David C. Leestma, who explained to the players as working on Control Center and said some of the historical moments that had lived from it.

The group then moved to the old Mission Control where he worked all the Apollo project, which was the most impressed the players to see how it had evolved into the world of technology.

"It's amazing what I've seen relative to the Apollo mission as phones now not at all like the ones we use today," he told the Agencia Efe Schelotto.

"The truth is I liked being there and seeing it, but nothing that I have been traveling," he added.

The Argentine player was accompanied by Brad Davis, Houston Dynamo, and the Granada Shalrie Joseph, the New England Revolution as the only representatives of the MLS.

Particularly in the old Mission Control Project Apollo was where the player and captain of Manchester United, Ryan Giggs, and Davis did Saunders delivery of their team jerseys with the number 10 and the name of NASA.

"I am very grateful for the detail, my youngest son is a football fan. Well, in our country (soccer) and in the past week we saw many World Cup games," said Saunders.

The sightseeing tour was his third and final stage in the operations center, where the astronauts work with all elements that are currently used to fly into space and prepare missions.

The players had the opportunity to be in contact with the parts of a space suit, including the helmet was the most successful was because it put the majority of professionals, including Giggs, the veteran goalkeeper Van der Sar Netherlands and companion, Polish Tomasz Kuszczak.

But inside the great historical expedition team was the presence of the legendary Bobby Chalton, which like the rest of the players he was "impressed" by a close look around the world and space technology.

His greatest attention was given in the further development of space vehicles and robots, which was the last leg of the visit to NASA, which took him several engineers to explain some of the characteristics of the projects we were working.

The expedition's visit of Manchester United, with Davis, Schelotto and Joseph, found in the store's Johnson Space Center where professionals wanted to go to take some memory.