Kennedy Space Center: Atlantis Space Shuttle Experience
After walking through the main entrance and being rather impressed with the huge rockets on display our first stop was the Atlantis Space Shuttle experiance. This involved a couple of films about the background of space shuttles and how they were developed. At the end of the second film the screen lifts open to reveal the actual space shuttle Atlantis, and it’s massive!





Kennedy Space Center: Dinner with an Astronaut
If you pay for the upgraded ticket you get to have dinner and meet an astronaut. The title is a bit misleading, they don’t sit down and break bread with you, but you have a very nice buffet dinner with fellow visitors before an astronaut, in our case Ken Cameron, comes out to do a presentation about an aspect of their missions before a Q&A session and a quick photo. The food was surprisingly good, much better than the usual theme park food you’ll end up eating at Universal et al, and the presentation was genuinely fascinating, it’s not often you get to meet someone that’s been to space and back. Mr Cameron was everything you’d expect from an astronaut, he’d been a test pilot, flown the Shuttle Atlantis, been in some tricky situations (talking us through a shuttle docking makes parallel parking sound easy!) and was happy to answer any questions about his fascinating career. This was a highlight of the trip to Kennedy Space Center and a definite recommended upgrade if you’re thinking of making the trip.Is the Kennedy Space Center a Suitable Destination for Camping?
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Kennedy Space Center: Bus Tour
Following dinner, the bus tour of the site sounded like it could be interesting. Unfortunately this section felt a little flat compared to the morning, the tour guide we had was exactly the sort of uncharismatic, dull, whinging, tour guide Pete (from New York) had been making fun of when he picked us up that very morning. Where we should have been listening to interesting commentary as to what we were seeing out the window most people tuned out. His attempts at comedy didn’t work, the commentary jumped all over the place (e.g. “I’m going to say this site is over built, but I’ll explain that sentence later”) and he was the first American we’d met that came across negative about almost everything. This was a shame as touring the grounds of NASA was interesting, seeing where shuttles had taken off and the huge buildings required to house rockets and act as the HQ. As there were loads of tour buses it’s likely you’ll get a different guide, hopefully one a little more engaging. The tour bus dropped us off at a launch experience exhibition. This is a seated experience that let’s you sit through a recreation of a launch, complete with countdown and it was interesting to see this in action. Leaving the experience you get to see a Saturn rocket along with numerous other space paraphernalia, as with the Atlantis section this is fascinating collection of amazing engineering achievements, especially when you consider the phone in your pocket likely has more processing power than everything on display.



