Kennedy Space Center

Today we visited the space center. We were gone for eight hours and could have seen more, but time ran out. Below, I just added a few pictures I took; mostly, fun ones with us in them. There was plenty of things to photograph.

We took bus rides out to two different buildings. One was the observation area for the launch. The other was the Apollo/Saturn V.




These two lanes of road are made of a smooth rock called Tennessee rock. The big "crawler transporter" that takes the shuttle back and forth between assembly area and the launch pad. It goes one mile an hour and one set of tires are on one side of the road and the other on the other lane. It is the width of 8-lane highway.



Carl is overlooking Cape Canaveral. We visited there yesterday. While there yesterday, we saw a cruise ship in the port and visited a craft show.



Launch pads in the distance.


This is the vehicle assembly building. That flag is huge. One stripe is 8 ft. wide. On the side where it is dark and horizontal stripe is actually the door that opens. It takes 45 minutes to open.


A replica of command control.


Pics from inside the Apollo/Saturn V building.

We are goofing off at the place where the important guests get to view the launch.

The Hubble Space Telecope.

Mom touching an actual moon stone and me by a pic of the moon.

Laying inside the capsule. Not at all comfortable.

Future astronauts? More like spaced out and not in space.

We rode a ride simulator of the space shuttle taking off (Shuttle Launch Experienc). Even with warnings of a bad heart, high blood pressure, bad back, etc, Grinny was going on it anyways. She came out laughing because it really wasn't much at all. Also, saw 3-D Imax movie of the Hubble being repaired.

To Betty, thanks for telling us to visit the space center. It sure was well worth the visit.

Tomorrow, we are leaving here and going up to St. Augustine for four nights.