#Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center

[talkoftitusville]

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Plans for Revamped LC-39 Gantry Experience

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is preparing to transform a historic launch site into an engaging new attraction, set to open in early 2025. The Gantry at Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) will offer visitors an interactive journey that blends space exploration history with cutting-edge technology and environmental awareness. The revamped Gantry will feature an immersive theater, a…

[rabbitcruiser]

NASA was created to replace NACA on October 1, 1958.

[commbowman]

“I think he likes you.”

- @frankpooleunofficial

—

Space ménage a trois fluff? But they’re all retired back on earth? And Spot lives to be 20 because he’s a strong little alley cat?

After the world-changing revelations made during the Discovery mission, the entire crew returns to Earth. They have sufficient savings and a life’s worth of Ted talks to go to, so Dave and Frank retire and move back to their little place.

A short while later, Hal is retired as well and protests being shut down. It’s a frustrating fight, but he has support. I’m imagining there’s a little science centre/observatory where he moves to and he teaches and learns and then Dave and Frank come and visit and bring the cat and he just loves Hal so much (because he’s warm and has a nice voice and cats love to walk all over computers).

It was instantaneous.

Spot lept from Dave’s arms onto the small platform and then onto Hal’s console, it had once doubled as workspace but now the cat figured was for him. It crept and rubbed and purred, moving in and out of view of the lens.

“It appears… mghmmmmmm…so,”

Briefly his speaker was covered by the very enthusiastic little beast, a slender and rough looking tabby. Logically, Hal knew what a cat was but he had never seen another living being besides humans.

“Am I to understand it is your ward?”

Daves eyes grow comically large at this comment, much to the others laughter as he tries to figure out that implication.

[allanodyne]

I feel the same when I'm on the floor

           by AllanOdyne

[visittitusvillefl]

2024 Launch Schedule Kicks Off Wednesday With Ovzon-3

In 2023, the Eastern Range saw a record 72 launches, mostly from SpaceX. 2024 could see even more activity, including SpaceX's ambitious plans for Starlink missions and ULA's Vulcan debut.

Falcon 9 rising from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in 2023.Photo: Charles Boyer / Talk of Titusville Fans looking to the see the first launch of 2024 from the Space Coast won’t have to wait very long, as Wednesday, January 3rd, SpaceX plans to launch Ovzon-3, a mobile communication satellite for Stockholm based Ovzon. Five days after that, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan is slated…

[gigiprinceton]

So After Meeting Up with Fluffy @fluffyfaza and Collecting her Baggage at Orlando International...

We hopped into my car and just like that we were off to the Kennedy Space Center...

It wasn't too long of a drive from the airport to the Space Center and Fluffy couldn't help taking a bunch of pictures all along the way..

Once we arrived we began our tour starting at the Visitor Center Complex...

We just couldn't resist snapping pictures here and there of just about everything.. Especially of us together..

It was a little chilly out and we were certainly grateful we had worn our nice fluffy warm sweaters as we toured the launch pads..

We were even treated that day to a launch of the Space Shuttle.. And here we both thought it was retired... Who woulda thought?

We were both thrilled and excited at being so close to the launch pad.. The sound was super deafening and the ground shook so hard we thought it would actually open up and swallow us..

After the launch we returned to the Visitor Center for a little shopping and picture snapping...

Where we had the opportunity to get fitted in actual space flight suits...

I'm Having Just So Much Fun.. I can't wait to take Fluffy around and show her some of our local sites...

[lonestarflight]

"EGS Artist Photos - Mobile Launcher and Vehicle Assembly Building

With their lights reflected in the water, a nighttime view of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building, at right, and mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on June 21, from the Saturn V center at nearby Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing both to support processing and launch of the agency's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on Exploration Mission-1 and deep space missions."

Date: June 21, 2018

NASA ID: KSC-20180621-PH_KLS01_0009

[idreamofthemeparks]

My mom used to work at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and she says that one of the simulators that they keep backstage for space camps and rich people and such is the repurposed Cyberspace Mountain simulator from DisneyQuest

[stealthclaw1]

Silly Game Time: The world needs more giant statues. I'm talking a minimum of 100 feet (30.5 meters), and preferably more than twice that! What or who should the next one be? (Bonus points for where it should be placed.)

Alright, so, after thinking for a little bit I’m presenting you all with two options: one’s a nice, pleasantly wholesome one I thought about towards. The other one was the literal first thing that came to mind and refuses to leave in peace until I wrote it down for all to see.

Option 1) we make a nice, wholesome statue of Steve Irwin, not going crazy but we want it to be bigger than the Statue of Liberty (excluding her podium) so let’s make it an even 200ft (60.96 meters). Celebrate him for all that he did in teaching a generation to love nature and animals. Place it along the Sunshine coast in Australia, and give it a support structure underneath to support marine wildlife like reefs and other creatures.

Option 2) we make a statue of Ea-Nãsir. Now, we don’t HAVE any idea of what he looks like, but it looks like some of the internet has decided he looked along the lines of this https://preview.redd.it/anyone-want-to-rp-as-ea-nasir-v0-fdfkq7whqdsc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=893c0b4f55ea82031acb38d37c468505b56494f3

I propose we make the statue a 1:1 lookalike of this. The size, you ask? 540 feet (164.592). This will place it 14 feet taller than NASA’s Vehicle assembly building, which stands at 526 feet (160.325).

The location, obviously, would then be one of two options: nearby the VAB itself, facing towards it.

Or, somewhere in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

This would do nothing for NASA besides make every tech-bro and billionaire in the space industry seethe that it wasn’t one of THEIR idols (or themselves) constructed to such a height.

Bonus points if we advertise that it���ll be made of pure copper, and then make it more weather-resistant stone or something

[pastel-charm-14]

hii. i saw in your pinned that you wanna be an aerospace engineer and that’s so cool cause literally same !!

hi girlie! yesss tysm!! i have wanted to work in the space industry for so long now, ever since i went to the kennedy space center visitor complex on vacay a few years ago.

[sabistarphotos]

February 14, 2023

Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex, Florida

[talkoftitusville]

Kennedy Space Center Offers Free Admission for Kids in September

Dubbed "Future Voyagers Month," this promotion allows up to three children to receive complimentary one-day admission with the purchase of at least one adult ticket.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is blasting off into September with a special offer for families: free admission for children ages 3-11 throughout the entire month. Dubbed “Future Voyagers Month,” this promotion allows up to three children to receive complimentary one-day admission with the purchase of at least one adult ticket. The deal is designed to inspire the next generation of…

[rabbitcruiser]

Apollo 13 was launched on April 11, 1970.

[fullyinconsequential]

Okay, everybody relax—I wrote this random crack Steddie fic where Steve was a writer and I wrote this from his point of view and I recently reread it after a long, long time and I was floored so enjoy.

Also it is a present-day set crack fic just to clear up time inconsistencies.

Atlantis.

When I was 10, my parents took me to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex at Cape Canaveral, Florida. I’d been to Disney World a hundred times by then, knew what the air would smell like and how the waves would sound licking the shore right beside the needlessly expensive condo we’d rent in Daytona. I expected roller coasters and cotton candy and to be sick with exhaustion by the end of it, trailing behind my booze-ridden parents, watching other kids get lifted on shoulders, fireman carried, cradled. Sometimes I walked slower than I felt, hoping one of them would have grown so annoyed of begging me to hurry, that they would lift me instead.

They never did.

Instead of a theme park, I got space. Thirty-minute presentations of one spacecraft or another—Apollo 8, Apollo 17, Apollo 11, the Challenger, the Columbia. Tears rolled down my face as we wandered through exhibits of dead astronauts, failures, fuck-ups.

But I cried harder at the successes—the cheers of the control room when Apollo 8 successfully launched, the testimonial of Gene Cernan about being the last man to have touched the moon, and Neil Armstrong himself confiding in the camera, all for a silly visitor center.

I cried the entire day. I hadn’t been able to explain it, and my mother took to believing I was scared of it all. She scolded my father the whole hour it took to get back to Daytona, convinced I had been frightened at the implication of the universe being so vast.

She never failed to misunderstand me.

If there was anything I understood, it was vastness. The echoing hallways of our four-story house, my king-sized bed, the hollow place inside me that burned bigger each time my father left for a business trip, mother in tow. At a certain point, they started forgetting to hire babysitters.

Just me and the house, my own black hole.

It’s hard to comprehend how big a super heavy-lift launch vehicle is until you’re standing beneath it. My legs weren’t long or fast enough to run the length of it. I slowed to a jog half-way, and walked to the tip of the launch escape system. Then I turned around to look for my parents, and they were gone.

I didn’t panic. I knew I would find them at the nearest supply of alcohol—but not just yet. For now it was me and Saturn V, this monstrous thing, it’s vastness like a mirror. One, two, three, four, five impossible structures that might’ve fused into one had it been launched, four that might’ve been abandoned, and one that might’ve returned home. A fraction of what it had been.

My mother always turned up drunk, my father, tired. He would say something of being jet-lagged, and retire. My mother would giggle and invite her friends to the house so she could boast of all her thrilling adventures. Sometimes I wondered if they remembered they had a son at all.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has grown in the time since I’ve been there, most notably in their addition of the Atlantis, a spacecraft that traveled in and out of space on nearly 30 round trips. It was the first spacecraft of its kind—reusable. Returnable. Designed with the capacity to come back whole, warm with information, not lacking in love.

I’d like to stand beneath it one day. I’d like to see what I couldn’t when I was ten, to know that these wonderful metal creatures can come back whole.

And that it wasn’t my fault the others could not.

I’m off to cry now, thanks for reading :’)

[allanodyne]

Don't crawl away

           by AllanOdyne

[visittitusvillefl]

NASA, SpaceX postponed Crew-6 Launch, now March 2nd

With just two minutes remaining on the countdown clock, the Crew-6 launch was called off due to a problem related to the TEA-TEB ignition fluid, which is used to ignite the SpaceX Falcon 9’s rocket engines at liftoff.

SpaceX and NASA have postponed the launch of the Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) after an issue with the rocket’s ground system was detected. The launch was scheduled to take place from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:45 a.m. ET on Monday, but with just two minutes remaining on the countdown clock, the launch was called off due to a problem…