Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Atlantis Space Shuttle, Apollo/Saturn V

Weather  this weekend April 4, 5, 6 - hot hot hot! 

Apollo 13 Space Capsule

Finally the snowbirds in Florida are heading north, and there are some campsites opening up.   We rode the other day with some new bike friends and she said due to the average age of the feathered flyers the nickname should be snowbuzzards not snowbirds.   Ha Ha.   Thought that was kind of funny.  So we found a site for the weekend in Mims at Seasons in the Sun RV Resort which is about a half hour away from the Visitors Complex for Kennedy Space Center.

Rocket Garden

Do you have any interest in space flights to the Moon?  Remember Lost in Space on TV when we were kids? Space Station? Space Shuttle? Hubble Telescope?  Space Capsules?  You can see it all at KSC in Titusville, Florida.

Atlantis Space Shuttle with the Canada Arm

Then this is a day for you.   We came early in the morning and spent all day, walking out at 5:30 and still not able to see it all.   Well worth the time and money if you get a chance. 

Tip:   take the extra tour bus to an up close look at the entire NASA grounds which include the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Vehicle Movers, the Launch Pads, and Headquarters.

Lunar rover

The United States has spent Billions of $'s in exploring Outer Space and they continue to as well.  

Apollo/Saturn V

Seeing the Apollo/Saturn V display and Atlantis Space Shuttle and the enormity of the complex it starts to sink in.   The first launches to the moon in 1969 and all through the 1970's  ....... Those astronauts were a "brave beyond belief" when you stand beside the rockets and space capsules.  They look so archaic.   Then came flying to the moon and returning in the same space ship!!!!  However; even the Space Shuttles have had 2 disasters, the Challenger in 1986 during launch and Discover in 2003 during reentry of earths atmosphere.  So the bravery continues.  Remember when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon?   We were glued to the TV, amazed.  Now it seems that these enormous space ships launch and astronauts stay up in the space station and we kind of pass it by and don't even stop and think about how incredible it is?????    AMAZING

shuttle rockets + fuel tank to send it to space