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Veteran NASA astronauts Michael Foale and Ellen Ochoa will officially be inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame®in a public ceremony that will take place at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the Space Shuttle Atlantis®attraction.

At Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, meetings, corporate events and trainings take on a new dimension. Imagine dining under the largest rocket ever flown, mingling at cocktail parties among the rockets and under the stars they were meant to explore, and networking with a backdrop of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® inductees.

The 2017 Innovation Summit is the culmination of the Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge– an annual, multi-phase, innovation and entrepreneurship competition hosted by the Conrad Foundation. Kicking off last fall, teams of students from around the world used STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills to develop world-changing solutions for global and local sustainability in one of four categories: Aerospace & Aviation, Cyber-Technology & Security, Energy & Environment, Health & Nutrition

A new tribute opened Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to the lives, accomplishments and memories of the three astronauts who perished 50 years ago in a launch pad fire while training for the flight of Apollo 1.

Experience space as only NASA astronauts have before with the new, custom-designed Space Visor virtual reality headset and mobile applications available exclusively at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex launched its holiday season last night with the premiere of the Holidays in Space video display, which this year provided visitors with a glimpse of a future Mars habitat.

Holidays in Space is Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s unique high-tech holiday celebration, featuring a custom, space and holiday themed projection mapping show set against the side of a Saturn 1B rocket.

A ceremony was held at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this afternoon to honor NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, who passed away on Dec. 8, at the age of 95.

To honor NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, who passed away on Dec. 8, 2016, at the age of 95.