Kennedy Space Center

As a follow up to my last post about the "Then and Now Tour" of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, I'll show you some photos from my trip to Kennedy Space Center. I took a business trip to Orlando last year and since I was in the area I visited the Space Center.

I arrived a little early that morning. In fact, they were not even open yet! So, I sat in the car and waited. The rockets in the Rocket Garden were towering over the trees and buildings. I could see their noses from the parking lot. I couldn't wait to go in and get a closer look!

At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Rocket Garden you are able to get up close to rockets and replicas of rockets that made space exploration history. There was a Mercury/Redstone, Mercury/Atlas, a Saturn 1b and several others.

Very tight quarters for three men to share on their trip to and from the Moon.

If you go to KSC, take the bus tour! If you don't you will miss most of the exhibits.

Here are some of my photos from the tour that stopped at the Saturn V building, the International Space Station Center and several more areas of interest.



This is the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) from four miles away!




Launch Complex 39A - Where the Space Shuttles were launched.



Alan Shepard's 1968 Corvette

Five first stage engines of the Saturn V rocket

This is a bad photo of the Saturn V. But, I wanted to show just how big this monster is!

Lunar Module

This is in the International Space Station Center. The workers here are preparing these modules to go to the ISS.

I suppose some, if not all, of these modules may be in space by now!

Shuttle Explorer - a mock up of a Space Shuttle

Space Mirror Astronaut Memorial