We got to Titusville yesterday, (Saturday). Today is Sunday and we decided to go to Kennedy Space Center. If you are ever out this way and need something to do....this is worth it. We arrived at 1115 am and left at 600 pm and might even go back tomorrow. It was 125.00 for both of us...but we really enjoyed it.
The picture with the flag and NASA sign on it: Woolworth's Dept. store donated the paint for the flag. Shortly thereafter, they went out of business :) The building itself is 525' tall. It is called the Vehicle Assembly Building. It is where the space shuttle is assembled. The building is tall but the volume is even bigger....the Empire State Building is taller, but it would take 3 of them to fill it. The Washington Monument would fit inside, but would have to be tipped to get in. It is huge. The flag; each strip is 8 feet wide, the blue star area is the size of a basketball court and each star is 6 feet tall. It was amazing.
We saw (pictured also) the site of where the next launch on Dec. 6th will be. The picture enclosed doesn't show the water tower by the launch but it is there because they found, through the years, that if they release the water in the water tower (400,000 gals) when the shuttle is launched it reduces the noise and the shaking of the earth. Pretty interesting.
We got to go in the space shuttle simulator and feel what it is like for the astronauts on take-off. Of course we couldn't feel all the G's it pulled...but got a good bit of the shaking.
Pictured also are some of the rockets that were launched from here. It was getting dark so I couldn't get all the details on them. Maybe tomorrow.
One of the things I really appreciated was that throughout the tour, MOST of the island is a natural wildlife preserve. We saw alligators, hugh turtles, wild pigs, all sorts of birds and an eagle's nest that they say is as big as a king-size bed!!!???
Was a fun day.
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Did you take notes during the tour? How do you remember all of those details? I always find the details in tours to be fascinating and something I'm sure I'll never forget . . . then I get home and have to call other people who were on the tour with me to see if they can remember.
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