Yep, we made it yesterday to the Space Center. This is a tourist attraction now totally supported by the dollars we spend. AND it cost mucho bucks...lol..The Kennedy Space Center is located on Merrit Island, which also has wildlife refuges on each end helping to make it quite secure. We saw a couple turtles and lots of gators in the ponds.
At the Space Center they have many displays and explanations of all that has been accomplished with the dollars spent on the rockets and shuttles...take for instance the advancement in cell phones and GPSrs. Norman is playing one of the games available. He's trying to dock into the space station. He did pretty darn well. Me? I crashed every time.
We paid for an advanced tour over to parts of Cape Canaveral, which is an Air Force base. We drove past many of the installations and had them explained. Norman was particularly interested in transporter below, because the tracks were made in Oakland, OR.
This is the Vehicle Assembly Building, where all the parts are put together before the launch...transporter...platform...orbiter (shuttle). This is a temporary stop on the tour, because many changes are happening, since the space program is going private now.
This is the only operational launch site for a shuttle right now.
I had a very nice lady take our picture on the Cape, but unfortunately, she was short and also couldn't see the picture before it was taken...lol...Norman lost the top of his head. And, drat it all, it turned out to be a nice pic of us.
A great full day...We could have spent a couple days here.
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