Here's just a few of the reasons:
This is where they build shuttles and rockets. Inside there's about 500' of clearance. Outside on the top, you could fit Yankee Stadium and have an acre left over for parking.
Saturn 5 rocket, stage 1. The end of the most complex device ever created by human beings, we were told. I took a stroll along it with the camcorder. I hope to post it and other videos on YouTube.
Saturn 5 again. Perhaps this gives some sense of the size of the rocket that got our guys to the moon.
Apollo 14 capsule.
Memorial to astronauts who lost their lives while progressing the space program.
This and the actual mission control room for our first moon landing were very emotional for me. I have some video of mission control, but no flash photography was allowed. In a multimedia presentation, television coverage of the countdown as well as highlighted displays as would have been seen in mission control were all mixed together. Walter Cronkite was of course featured. You could go aboard a shuttle, climb up a viewing tower, touch a moon rock, see the stages of development of space suits, lunar transport vehicles, actual handwritten logs of various events, capsule designs from the early 50's, the chance to have lunch with a mission tested astronaut, and lots of stuff I can't remember right now. Be aware that if you go -- and you should if you can -- the nearest motels are about ten miles away. And if you're in better shape than me (which I think means all of you), two days might be better than one.
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