Three locations are visited during this 56,000-light-years-away journey, including the inky Horsehead Nebula dust cloud, the glowing tendrils of the Crab Nebula, and a special visit to a massive Wolf-Rayet Star that is about to go supernova.
A must-see experience, this tour takes guests on a narrated, video supplemented bus tour of Kennedy Space Center. Gain exclusive access to see operational spaceflight facilities and drive by iconic space program landmarks such as NASA’s Press Site and the 525-foot-high Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) where rockets and the space shuttles were stacked in preparation for launch.
Shuttle Launch Experience, part of Space Shuttle Atlantis, is an incredible journey of vertically launching into space and orbiting Earth aboard the space shuttle.