Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island, Florida, USA
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex: Space Commerce Way, Merritt Island, Florida, USA
It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport.
The clock you see in the photo is the actual clock used in the Apollo rocket launches.
A model of the space module used in the future
Waiting for a simulated ride with a large screen and moving chairs.
Bus tour to the Apollo rocket museum
Bus to Apllo/Saturn V Center
Passing through
The Crawlerway runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39.
At the Apollo/Saturn IV Center
The actual Launch Control Center (not a mockup) used in Apollo missions
The Saturn V rocket sent the astronauts to the moon. This is an actual rocket that was built but not used.
Nine Saturn V rockets moved astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, but three extras were made.
NASA initially wanted to send crewed missions all the way through Apollo 20 but stopped the moon missions at Apollo 17.
The three Saturn V rockets are at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center near Orlando, Florida, and U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
See my blog on U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
The second stage
A launch pad can be seen in the distance
The third stage
The top of the rocket, where the command module and the capsule can be seen
The command module where the astronauts were sitted
Looking inside the capsule through the cone. This is where the astronauts sit
This model shows the inside of the rocket – the first-stage engine and the fuel tanks (red and green)
The first-stage engine fuel tank
The second-stage engine and the fuel tank
The second stage fuel stage and the third stage engine
The third stage rocket and the lunar lander
The lunar lander and the command module with astronauts
A mockup of the Lunar Lander
Inside the Lunar Lander
The Lunar Rover
Visitors can touch a moon rock
Apollo 14 Capsule
Lunar rocks
Tools used to get lunar rocks
A person is giving a lecture on Mars exploration
Mars rovers
The smaller one in front is the one that was sent the first time. The bigger one next to it is the one that was sent the second time.
This is the Mars rover that was sent the third time. The size is as big as a small car.
The Space Shuttle
Three space shuttles were made, but one exploded, and two were left. One of the two is located here, and the other is located at California Science Center.
See my blog, Exposition Park Museums and the University of Southern California.
A mockup of the shuttle cockpit
The shuttle engine
The bottom of the shuttle
