My visit to the Kennedy Space Center - Lot of pics

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Posted: 3/13/2015 11:15:27 AM EDT

During a recent business trip to FL I had a free day and wanted to visit the Kennedy Space Center. I spent about 6 hours walking around the place.

I got there about 30 minutes after the opened not that many people there but by the end of the day it was getting crowded.

With all that is there I could have spent a couple more hours but I had to get back.

Original Apollo swing arm.

Original launch pad.

Original equipment.

The End.

Posted: 3/13/2015 11:27:27 AM EDT

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Thanks for the pics.

Posted: 3/13/2015 11:30:33 AM EDT

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Nice! I visited the Johnson Space Center in Houston a couple of years ago. Paid the money for the VIP tour. Definitely worth it.

Posted: 3/13/2015 11:57:25 AM EDT

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Posted: 3/13/2015 11:59:50 AM EDT

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Cool stuff.

What kind of engine drives this thing?

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Posted: 3/13/2015 12:00:49 PM EDT

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Nice. You need to go to the TICO airshow since you are down here.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:05:21 PM EDT

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I've been to the one in Houston, Florida would be awesome to go to.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:05:53 PM EDT

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Great pics! I haven't been down there since the early 80's but I still remember getting goosebumps being around some of the displays and flown equipment.

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Posted: 3/13/2015 12:21:25 PM EDT

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Cool pics! I was there a few times as a kid (in the late 70's, 80's...)

Very neat place...

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:24:13 PM EDT

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NICE!

Went there a few years ago. The Atlantis exhibit was not there yet.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:28:15 PM EDT

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Great pics! We were down there over Thanksgiving break last year and did the Shuttle Launch experience as well as the new Atlantis display. Both were excellent. My 7 year old daughter had an absolute ball! So much so that we're now keeping track of active launches and watching the webcasts when we can.

Two of my favorite pictures from that visit:

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:32:34 PM EDT

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Been there many times. I find the place a bit depressing now.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:38:52 PM EDT

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Gater?

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:40:04 PM EDT

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I haven't been there in years, but I want to take my son now that he's old enough to appreciate it. It's only about two hours away from here depending on traffic.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:40:37 PM EDT

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Agreed! When I went the Endeavour had landed that morning and the Atlantis was on the pad. Everone there knew the last mission was soon to happen. I considered myself very lucky to have been there before the end of the Space Shuttle program.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:41:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/13/2015 12:42:05 PM EDT

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Titusville is especially depressing.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:42:21 PM EDT

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I was at Johnson and Kennedy last year. While both are excellent places, Kennedy is better.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:45:13 PM EDT

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Love it there. Was fortunate to see a shuttle launch one time and a satellite launch. We watched them both from across the cape in Titusville

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:46:44 PM EDT

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I've been to the one in Houston, Florida would be awesome to go to.

I was at Johnson and Kennedy last year. While both are excellent places, Kennedy is better.

Guess it's like compairing Disneyland to Disneyworld.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:47:01 PM EDT

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Bring back the English/ Imperial system of measurement. Metric is for slackers. The old way got shit done. Metric is all about the feelings.

' Murica. Fuck yea.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:48:55 PM EDT

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This. It's like a monument to what we once were, and probably won't be again. Too many unproductive people to feed to afford manned space flights.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:49:58 PM EDT

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I went there about 15 years ago. I'd like to go back with my kids. Of course being relatively close to Disney World would make that a hard sell.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:52:12 PM EDT

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Awesome pics. Where's the door gunner?

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:52:39 PM EDT

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Cool pics, thanks.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:54:29 PM EDT

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got down there about 8 years ago, I enjoyed it, but it made me wistful and kinda depressed to remember the heights we attained and how low we'd fallen.

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:57:43 PM EDT

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My kid (between 1st and second grade) went there for Space Camp last summer.

He will be going again this summer. He had a BLAST!

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:57:50 PM EDT

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neato bandito

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:58:39 PM EDT

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It's been a while since I was there. Next time the hubs has some weekday time off, I think that will be the destination.

Thanks for sharing!

Posted: 3/13/2015 12:59:09 PM EDT

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I took my son to Houston 2 years ago (he was 4) and we were looking at the Redstone rocket.

He launched into this whole thing about how he wanted to ride it into space.

Great kid, a little hyper, but you gotta love that kind of enthusiasm.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:15:02 PM EDT

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This is like drunken vision, everything is blurry.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:20:59 PM EDT

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I helped build one of the buildings in your pics

KSC was a great place to work. Of course, I was there when it was a busy spaceport

and not just a museum

but as long as everybody has an Obama phone and foodstamps...

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:31:19 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/13/2015 1:35:27 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/13/2015 1:36:07 PM EDT

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iirc it was diesel electric engine

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:40:01 PM EDT

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I was there back in October, for my honeymoon. What an impressive place!

We had a hell of a time and I'm glad we went down a day early to see it.

The only thing that would have made it better would be if they had a launch that day.

I'll see about wresting the memory cards from the wife and I'll post some of mine up later.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:40:10 PM EDT

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Fun place to be. Also your camera has a flash, use it.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:42:01 PM EDT

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iirc it was diesel electric engine

Something like that.

I believe they said it moved 2MPH unloaded and 1MPH loaded. It took something like 6 hours for it to move to the pad and was manned by a whole crew of people to get there.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:42:21 PM EDT

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I see they have added space shuttle stuff since my last visit.

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Posted: 3/13/2015 1:43:26 PM EDT

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My Uncle was a NASA engineer at Kennedy from early Mercury through Soyuz. Spent my summers at Cocoa as a young kid. Saw alot of the program first hand. As I got ollder, I realized how blessed I was to see those momentous achievements in person and often with an inside perspective. Apollo launches were incredible to see . The state of the place now depresses me as well.

Cool pics Bama, lot of history there. Glad you enjoyed it!

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:53:35 PM EDT

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The Saturn V rocket is indescribably huge! I've been there twice. Love the place.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:56:05 PM EDT

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This is why I could never have been an astronaut.

Gene Krantz would point at that thing and say, "We're going to tie you down in there, on top of a hundred tons of explosives, we'll set it on fire, and you'll go up in the air at 25,000 miles an hour."

My response would be, "Naw, Hell No!"

I'm glad some people were willing to do it.

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:56:45 PM EDT

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I'm jealous.

A couple weeks ago, I did go see this:

Posted: 3/13/2015 1:57:55 PM EDT

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Nice.

Did you get to see the sound stage where they filmed the moon landing?

Posted: 3/13/2015 2:02:57 PM EDT

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We were out there when the SHOT show was in Tampa.

a) damn that's a lot of coastline that the .gov has snapped up and we'll never get
b) too bad America will never do something as ambitious as out-of-orbit space travel

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