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Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center is a working space flight facility. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex provides an exhilarating and educational experience of the space program.

Apollo/Saturn V Center

The Apollo/Saturn V center features an actual 363-foot Saturn V moon rocket. Besides, there are presentations in two theaters and a large exhibition area with interactive displays, that highlight America's great achievement of landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to Earth.

Rocket Garden

Rocket Garden is a collection of rockets that launched astronauts and machines into space including a Mercury Redstone, similar to the one that carried Alan Shepard into space. Another special vehicle in the collection is an awe-inspiring Mercury Atlas identical to the rocket that carried John Glenn into space for America's first orbit.

Austronaut Encounter

Guests to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will now have the opportunity to come face-to-face with a real astronaut every day of the year. This innovative program consists of question and answer sessions, mission briefings, video footage, space artifacts and personal stories of space travel as told by those who have lived it.

IMAX theatres

On the huge IMAX screens two 3D films are showcased: "Space Station" (showing astronauts from the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe, who collectively have spent thousands of hours in space) and "The Dream is alive" (featuring spectacular in-flight footage shot by NASA astronauts on three separate missions).

Cape Canaveral: then and now

The tour highlights the Cape's 50-year history of space exploration. Sites and stops include Alan Shepard's Mercury training facility at Hanger S to Launch Complexes 40/41, the sites from which the Voyager probes, the Viking Mars Landers and most recently, the Cassini Saturn probe were launched.

NASA Up Close

The tour is guided by a space program expert. Visitors can explore Space Shuttle Launch Pads A and B, the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), Shuttle Landing Facility, Crawler Transporter and Crawlerway