Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Tour and Review
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The eastern shores of Central Florida are known as the Space Coast. Operating as the home for Kennedy Space Center which serves as NASA’s primary launch facility for human spaceflight and The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex which is part exhibition facility and part living museum recording our endeavors to break the bonds of earth and reach the stars. As the sun rises off the east coast of Florida, we will explore the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on this episode of The Orlando Guy.
From downtown Orlando, The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is only 55 minutes East using the 528 Beachline Expressway and located on Merritt Island.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is organized into Mission Zones grouped by chronological era. From early space exploration to the present day, the story of humans in space is revealed.
We will begin our exploration in the Rocket Garden. Located just inside the front entrance, is an outdoor display of historic rockets that put Americans and satellites in space. You can walk up to and around the base of the rockets which include a Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas and Titan II rockets which launched both astronauts and satellites from nearby Cape Canaveral.
The garden also features mock-ups of capsules from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs that visitors can enter. Rocket Garden tours are offered several times a day which provide fun facts and insights into our early attempts to go beyond the heavens above us.
Next, we will tour Heroes and Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. This exhibit celebrates the pioneers of NASA’s early space programs which inspired a nation to reach for the stars. Within the attraction you will learn about the thrills and dangers of America’s earliest space missions. Actual artifacts from these missions will help you relive the dawn of the space age and learn the common characteristics of an astronaut - among them, inspired, passionate, curious and tenacious - some of the nine identified traits.
The exhibit then leads you to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame - a place where American astronauts are remembered and honored from the Mercury 7 until today - including John Young who participated in both the Gemini and Apollo programs and fl ew the very first space shuttle mission in 1981. A graduate of Orlando High School, a major parkway in Orlando is named in John Young’s honor.
Journey to Mars: Explorers Wanted at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is an attraction with a focus on Mars exploration. The attraction, which employs large-scale video projections, dimensional exhibits and interactive experiences immerses you in the unsolved challenges of future space exploration. The exhibit includes orbital docketing and lunar landing simulators, a full-sized development model of a crew vehicle, models of space exploration vehicles, and the Mars rover family.
If you really want an immersive experience at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, sign up for the separate program called the Astronaut Training Experience. This 5-hour program will train you to be a part of the next generation of space explorers that prepare for human’s deep space travel. The Astronaut Training Experience will bring you as close to training, living and working on the Red Planet as possible without ever leaving Earth.
You will practice your docking skills, navigate the unique Mars terrain and experience the sensation of performing a spacewalk in a microgravity environment. Contact the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for schedule availability and individual or group cost information.
By far one of the most popular attractions is the bus tour to the Apollo/Saturn V Center located near Launch Complex 39. The 100,000-square-foot facility houses a restored Saturn V launch vehicle and features other exhibits related to the Apollo program. Also on display is a slice of Moon rock that visitors can touch.
Other exhibits include the Apollo 14 command module Kitty Hawk, a piece of Apollo 13's Lunar Module returned by the astronauts, lunar samples from Apollo 15 and Apollo 17, and a large cut-away scale model of the Saturn V.
Visit the website or call visitor information to confirm the availability of bus tours during your visit to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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Are you planning to visit the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex? Let me know below! 😀
Going next week 🤞 we can see the rocket launch 6/3. Long drive from NV to hopefully check off a bucket list item!
Is it expensive and good for little kids like 4?
@@mellopez7412 Tickets are $57 (age12+) and $47 (age 3-11). Every part of the Kennedy Space Center's visiting experience is family-friendly designed to thrill kids with the history of the space program and inspire them to think about the future of space exploration. There's only one ride at the KSC, the Shuttle Launch Experience, but children must be at least 44 inches tall to ride. Overall, there is much to do for young ones to see and experience.
I am once Aussies are allowed to go OS again, thinking of heading to Concord NH too to visit the grave of Christa McAuliffe and if I can save enough money I'll even visit all the other Challenger/Columbia gravesites
Yes in December 2021, any good tips?
This is definitely on my “to-do” list for when we go to Orlando.
I'll go with you! 😀
What a professional and wonderful video! We live in New York but have visited the Space Center a few times through the years. To see the Space Shuttle Atlantis up close was fantastic....I had chills. We will share this video with our family and friends.
Thanks! It was a blast to film at the Center!
Space Ghost. Coast to Coast 🌊😂🤯
yeah !
Awesome presentation. My father was a NASA subcontractor working for IBM and he was the IBM DDAS Network Launch Controller in the Firing Room for Apollo 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, and Skylab 2,3, and 4. Dad actually made the cut and can be seen in the recent film "Apollo 11" minutes before launch... 7:44 minutes into the film.
After Skylab, Dad and the father Astronaut Doug Hurley worked on the first and many other Space Shuttle Flight Computers at IBM Owego NY. Doug was 2 years older and lived a few miles away in our town of Apalachin NY (JFK Mob Town).
For more on Dad's career and other goodies @ProjectApolloFilm
Atlantis! The lead in is awesome . NASA does such a great job that adults are in tears and chills. A science geek must do
Magic POV enjoyed it sledgehammered that like button stay safe awesome and blessed shared this out
We are planning a trip to go next June when we go to Disney. I can't wait to share this video with my husband. He was worried the kids wouldn't have fun but my son is 9 and he would love it!
You’ll have a blast! 😀
i would love to go there and see the Apollo building and it would be amazing to learn more about the accomplishments of the program and including moon landings. And And sir your voice is incredibly amazing !
Thanks! I hope you get the chance to go.
Thank You for sharing. I have been to The Space Center a couple of times. I need to go back for visit since it has been awhile.
Fantastic video! Definitely on my to-do list!
I visited here in 2014 loved it will definetly revisit one day , great share 🙂👍🇱🇷
This was amazing!!! I've been dying to visit since we moved here 5 years ago and now I feel like this was the push to make it happen!! Absolutely incredible!! Thanks Richard! Can't wait for the next adventure! 😊
Going coming Friday! Such an awesome video, summed up what to expect so well.
For all of my visits to Orlando in my life, I have never been here! I especially liked how Atlantis is setup to see the interior...and I would definitely love the shuttle flight simulator. Another solid production, sir!
I can't wait to get over to NASA sometime soon. I love everything aviation and space. It's definitely on my to do list. Thanks for this great video Richard!
Thanks for such a great video.
Great video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome episode.
Thanks bunches!
bro, your productions skills are incredible ! you should voice documentaries. subbed !!
Thanks for the sub! These episodes are fun to produce!
I’ve been there in 2015
12k views, but only 202 thumbs up?
Yeah I do a subtle job at asking for likes and subscribers. It's all on-screen, but never mentioned during the episode.
My family and I will be visiting Orlando July of 2021. Do you know if the Kennedy Space Center is open to tourists? Awesome video btw! 🤙
Yes. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is open and operating. Have a great time! 😀
I have not been since I was 12 🤣 need to take my kids now!
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whats the thing with the mars rover it looks like a roller coaster but idk what its called its not the journey to mars thing its the other thing
Thank you for sharing. I got the opportunity to view a rocket launch in 2018. Incredible experience. I uploaded a pretty cool montage of the trip to my channel.
What no slice of the monolith from 2001 space odyssey? LOL
True, it is missing that! 😀
I'm going tomorrow but I don't think the buses are running out to the launch sites??
A limited amount of tickets on the Bus Tour to the Apollo/Saturn 5 Center are available each day and must be reserved upon entry into the park. The earlier you get there the better. More information here: www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/plan-your-visit-to-the-apollo-saturn-v-center
@@TheOrlandoGuy Thanks, I appreciate it!