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- this will be the last time it will ever be used
- the crawler tracks to the launch pads
- Our first stop along Saturn V road
- the LC 39 Observation Gantry
- It's a 60-foot-tall Launch Complex
- including the superstructure
- and sterile bay access area
- other variants of plane launch
- An insight of the VAB
- future space flight will be done this way commercially
- Inside the VAB (not the small shuttle inside)
- The welcome area of LC 39
- The various component of the launch pad
- Up the LC 39 Observation Gantry
- with the nozzle on the ground floor
- A savaged challenger shuttle rocket booster
- The top floors
- This is a tower you can climb
- and Propellant Storage and Service Area
- the outdoor viewing areas
- Launch complex LC39A in the distance
- The VAB
- overview of the nearby crawler tracks
- Atlantis STS-135 all ready on Pad A
- used for Space Shuttle launches. First stop on the KSC tour
- a sight we will never see again
- to get a good view of the two launch pads
- LC-37 looks like an antenna farm
- The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station down south
- LC-41, where Voyager 2 probe was launched in 1977
- looks just like in the picture!
- Scenic view over the Indian river
- as explained in this illustration
- Alantis covered by the service structure
- all the best for STS-135
- lets get a move on!
- look cool engraved tags!
- hot days are typical here
- Moving onto the next part of our tour!
- The Apollo/Saturn V Center!
- Quick facts of the day.
- and we are in!
- of what made it possible
- for a video presentation
- Contains one of only three Saturn V rockets still in existence. Made up of S-IC-T (test stage) and the second and third stages
- simulation of mission control of the launch
- 3-2-1 launch!
- all ready to go houston!
- look outside!
- the space race indeed!