July-21-2006 NASA
The "NASA Up Close" Tour Bus (always worth every penny)
Bill our tour guide
The Launch Control Building (complete with Blast Shutters)
The VAB
(note the patchwork hurricane damage)
The Crawler Transporter
The Shuttle Hangers
The Mobile Launch Platforms
The Launch Pads 39 A and 39 B
The Camera Generator Bunker ( So the generator and cameras of the 1960's Apollo era could survive the launch blast.)
NASA Fire & Rescue
The 747/Shuttle mate-unmate dock in the distance.
The Shuttles Landing Strip, Control Tower and Recovery units.
The Apollo Building
Launch Control Simulation
The Mighty Saturn 5
The NASA Mobile
The Launch Tower close up
Radio Controlled MARS Rovers FUN!!!
The Moon Mobile
(Note the rubber tires and rear axile pumkin not standard moon hardware)
most likely for earth bound astronauts to run around KSC.
Moon Booties "One Small Step" Ahhhh SO CUTE!!
The International Space Station Clean Rooms
The New Columbus Module being readied for launch.
The observation deck into the clean room
I.S.S. image projected onto the carpet, and the Skylab exhibit.
The Shuttle Payload Truck Backing up to the ISS Clean room to pick up the new module.
(note the fences are not to keep people out but are curved so that the weight of the alligators body will cause them to fall off the fence as they try to climb up.)
The "SHUTTLE EXPERIENCE" Theme Park style ride due to open in 2007
NASA Art
The Rocket Garden "Always fun"
Neat stuff in the Gift Shop
The Space Shuttle exhibit
Training equipment
SRB Parachute Drying and fabrication Building
Astronaut emergency room (Behind The doors up high on the building)
NASA Wildlife and yes there are plenty of Florida Gators!!!