When Di and Rick offered to take us to the Kennedy Space Center for a tour, we jumped at the chance. We are still experiencing some of the high that you get when you watch a launch. Kennedy Space Center is only about an hour north of where we're parked. Going through the exhibits with an engineer who works on rockets makes it really interesting.
The big grey things on the side of the building are doors! This is the building where things going to space are assembled. Then they open the grey doors and move them out. They are then put on these HUGE crawlers and moved to the launch site (they get 42 feet per gallon and it takes 6-8 hours to reach a launch site).
We think this is the launch site where we saw the shuttle launched from last Friday night. It's hard to tell from where we were standing whether it was Pad A or Pad B.
This is a capsule the Apolo astronauts sat in. It's really small, but the Saturn rocket that launches it is the length of a football field (hard to get a picture of!)
The boys had fun with this fountain. The ball floats on water and the boys could push it around. They had fun and got a bit wet.We got to see movies of the actual Apolo 11 launch and walking on the moon (in 3D) and we got to go on a shuttle simulator and play on a neat playground and walk through a shuttle and go to a kids play about going to Mars. What a fun day!!!
