Reds Visit NASA

The Reds will soon be embarking on a search for silverware, but the squad set off on a mission of a different kind on Tuesday when they visited NASA's Johnson Space Center.

The players were shown around the famous Houston landmark which was established in 1961 and, since 1965, has been the helm of America's human spaceflights.

After being shown round the Mission Control Center, the players were taken down to a space hangar which housed, among other things, a full-scale mock-up of Space Shuttle Orbiter which is used for astronaut training.

Edwin van der Sar, Tomasz Kuszczak and Ben Amos volunteered to try on different parts of an astronaut's suit, before joining their team-mates to pose in front of a lunar buggy.

Ryan Giggs told MUTV: "It was a great experience to look round the Center. To go inside Mission Control was fantastic and none of us could believe the size of the space shuttle. It's something we'll remember for a long time."

The players have their photo in front of a lunar buggy