« Saturday
- The VAB
- the outdoor viewing areas
- with the nozzle on the ground floor
- A savaged challenger shuttle rocket booster
- The top floors
- used for Space Shuttle launches. First stop on the KSC tour
- to get a good view of the two launch pads
- This is a tower you can climb
- Up the LC 39 Observation Gantry
- Inside the VAB (not the small shuttle inside)
- An insight of the VAB
- future space flight will be done this way commercially
- other variants of plane launch
- and sterile bay access area
- including the superstructure
- The various component of the launch pad
- The welcome area of LC 39
- It's a 60-foot-tall Launch Complex
- the LC 39 Observation Gantry
- Our first stop along Saturn V road
- the crawler tracks to the launch pads
- this will be the last time it will ever be used
- it's a huge building, mush bigger than a hangar
- before being crawler-ed to the launch pad
- it's where all the shuttle components are brought together
- The iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
- moving along Saturn road
- Launch Control Center & support buildings
- onto the public roads which served the huge complex
- the tour brings us out of the space center
- nasa style!
- Prepare for launch!
- all board the space train!
- at least it's air conditioned!
- the space tour buses
- looks we are first in line!
- Now for space tours
- where's the big nasa logo again?
- The welcome area of the center
- Complete with it's own ISS
- The space center entrance
- The rocket farm from outside
- patriotic!
- the space center's about1-2 hour drive from downtown orlando
- Rockets! we are here!
- Out funnyguy bus driver for the trip
- Time for a blast into space!
- that's all folks!
- personally it ranks up with the London Natural history museum
- that's all for the smithsonian galleries