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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex – 2024 Press Kit

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    Discover Something Real at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

    Go beyond imagination and into something real at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Get up-close to real space-flown artifacts, meet a veteran NASA astronaut, feel the rumble of a live rocket launch and so much more. Take the leap from make-believe to make-it-happen.
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    Entrance

    Each year guests from around the world experience their very own space adventure by exploring the exciting past, present and future of America’s space program at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Built in 1967, today the visitor complex is one of Central Florida’s most popular tourist destinations.
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    Rocket Garden and Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex®

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    Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® – Outside

    The first stop upon entering Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® presented by Boeing®. It reflects on the early years of the space program to explore the concept of heroism and the qualities that define the individuals who inspired their generation.
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    Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® – Inside

  • Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® – Gemini 9A

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    Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® – Mercury Mission Control

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    Heroes & Legends featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® – U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

  • Rocket Garden

    The ever-popular Rocket Garden is a Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex hallmark. The outdoor garden features nine authentic rockets from the past.
  • Read: Rocket Garden Fact Sheet
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    Rocket Garden Fact Sheet

    At NASA, it’s often said that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Nowhere is that more apparent than in The Rocket Garden.
    • Read: Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex® Fact Sheet
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      Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex® Fact Sheet

      You can discover the current and upcoming cutting-edge innovations of space exploration from NASA and their commercial partners inside Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex.
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        Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex®

        With a focus on the present and future of collaborative space exploration, guests to Gateway can experience the interstellar travel of tomorrow while celebrating everything happening right now within the space program. It features a showcase of NASA and commercial spacecraft hardware with immersive displays, as well as a “journey” through space, and more.
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        Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex® – Entry – 2

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        Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex® – Outside – 1

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        Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex® – Outside – 2

      • Blue Origin New Shepard Virtual Space Flight Experience

        Guests embark on a four-and-a-half-minute virtual reality journey that takes them on a space adventure aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule and above the Kármán Line, the internationally-recognized boundary of space.

      • Blue Origin New Shepard Virtual Space Flight Experience – Inside

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        Spaceport KSC – Entry

        At Spaceport KSC, guests are transported to an airport of the future, hearing the atmospheric airport chatter and seeing distant views of active launches and landings through the galactic spaceport windows. The main concourse showcases destination, departure and arrival information. Guests then board “spaceships” – in the form of a two-story, motion theater – for one of four journeys: Cosmic Wonders, Daring Explorers, Red Planet or Uncharted Worlds.

      • Spaceport KSC – Cosmic Wonders

        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.
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        All Systems Are Go!

        Located in Universe Theater, guests can join Snoopy and Woodstock as they’re called by a Launch Director to assist with the next NASA mission – Artemis.
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        S.T.E.A.M. Team

        The S.T.E.A.M Team is giving guests the chance to learn more about science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics through fun experiments.
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        The Space Shop

        The Space Shop is the largest retail store in the world devoted to space-themed merchandise with more than 3,000 items. Guests may also order items at www.TheSpaceShop.com.
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        Planet Play – Outside

        A fully-immersive multiple-story play experience, designed for a younger generation of space explorers ages 2 – 12, Planet Play is an indoor interactive area where children play on the planets.

      • Hyperdeck VR

        Guests suit up, and blast off from Launch Complex 39 to help collect lunar minerals along the Moon’s surface. Feel the rush of the air as you glide from one location to the next or the heat from the boosters as you soar high above Earth’s atmosphere while the ground rattles beneath you.

      • Orbit Cafe

        Spend lunchtime indoors with freshly-selected salads, burgers, sandwiches, pizza, dessert and more.
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        Astronaut Training Experience® (ATX)

        In Astronaut Training Experience®, train to live and work on Mars through exciting and immersive simulation technology.
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        Astronaut Training Experience® – Microgravity Simulator

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        Astronaut Training Experience® – Microgravity Simulator 2

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        Space Shuttle Atlantis® Entrance

        The world’s most comprehensive attraction devoted to the space shuttle, Space Shuttle Atlantis, brings guests nose-to-nose with Atlantis as only astronauts have seen it before – with payload bay doors open as if it were floating in space.
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        In the International Space Station

        Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex welcomed the family with a close-up experience that could only take place at America’s gateway to space. 
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        Forever Remembered: Challenger and Columbia astronaut crews

        This permanent memorial designed to honor the crews of the Columbia and Challenger tragedies pays tribute to the spacecraft and emphasizes the importance of learning from the past.
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        Forever Remembered: A portion of Challenger’s fuselage

      • Shuttle Launch Experience (SLE) – Entrance

        Shuttle Launch Experience, part of Space Shuttle Atlantis, is an incredible journey of vertically launching into space and orbiting Earth aboard the space shuttle.
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        Shuttle Launch Experience (SLE) – Simulation Briefing Pre-show

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        Journey To Mars: Launched by United Launch Alliance – Simulators

      • Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour

        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.
      • Read: Apollo/Saturn V Center Fact Sheet
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        Apollo/Saturn V Center Fact Sheet

        The Apollo/Saturn V Center pays homage to the people and machines that made the improbable possible and the future seem bigger than we ever dared to dream.
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          Apollo/Saturn V Center – Saturn V Rocket and Engine

        • Apollo/Saturn V Center – Launch Viewing

          See a rocket launch from the Apollo/Saturn V Center 

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          See a rocket launch from the Apollo/Saturn V Center