Today we visit the Kennedy Space Center, part history, part education, and part theme park.
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| Vehicle Launch Pad |
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| Vehicle Assembly Building |
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| Apollo moon landing generation and Saturn V launcher. |
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| An alligator viewed from our Kennedy tour bus. |
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| Sometimes you just have to wait. |
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| Many undeveloped areas of Florida are covered by tall pines and low palmetto palms. |
By one day we will miss the final landing of Discovery. By one night we will miss the rollout of Endeavor and its 1 MPH trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. But we have been fortunate enough to see a lot: the launch of Discovery, and the recovered first-stage booster rockets in Port Canaveral.
With the 2011 closedown of this generation of the shuttle program NASA is expecting 7000 layoffs. Titusville is all about space – Astronaut High School, “God Speed, Discovery” messages on store marquees, thousands of support businesses large and small. Already there are many vacant buildings.
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