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All
lotsa birdies here!
angry bird!
that's all for the smithsonian galleries
personally it ranks up with the London Natural history museum
that's all folks!
Time for a blast into space!
Out funnyguy bus driver for the trip
Rockets! we are here!
the space center's about1-2 hour drive from downtown orlando
patriotic!
The rocket farm from outside
The space center entrance
Complete with it's own ISS
The welcome area of the center
where's the big nasa logo again?
Now for space tours
looks we are first in line!
the space tour buses
at least it's air conditioned!
all board the space train!
Prepare for launch!
nasa style!
the tour brings us out of the space center
onto the public roads which served the huge complex
Launch Control Center & support buildings
moving along Saturn road
The iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
it's where all the shuttle components are brought together
before being crawler-ed to the launch pad
it's a huge building, mush bigger than a hangar
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
The welcome area of LC 39
The various component of the launch pad
including the superstructure
and sterile bay access area
other variants of plane launch
future space flight will be done this way commercially
An insight of the VAB
Inside the VAB (not the small shuttle inside)
Up the LC 39 Observation Gantry
This is a tower you can climb
to get a good view of the two launch pads
used for Space Shuttle launches. First stop on the KSC tour
The top floors
A savaged challenger shuttle rocket booster
with the nozzle on the ground floor