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Monday, Sep 1st, 2008

Out of This World Fun at Kennedy Space Center

written by Teresa Nielsen

Want to take the kids somewhere new and exciting? Are you running out of adventurous ideas? This week we will share in some Fall Family Fun as we focus on family-friendly destinations!

Visit Orlando, Florida with the entire family! Take the kids to Universal Studios, where they will surely enjoy a ride on the famed 3-D attraction, The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman. Spend a day exploring this immense theme park and plan ahead if you wish to catch a show! Next, travel to the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and take a tour of the facility. Get an up close view of the space shuttle launch pad and visit the Air Force Space & Missile Museum. In the mood for some sunshine? Take the kids for a picnic at Cocoa Beach and splash around in the waves! Orlando is full of excitement for everyone—the kids will have a blast!

RealTravel author Traveling Kings shares:

“The centerpiece of a visit to KSC would be their Bus Tour. The bus drivers are great tour guides, and explain what you are seeing, as they drive you to two different sites at the Space Center. The buses were great, and had multiple televisions, which broadcast a show about KSC. Our first visit was to a building which had lots of great props and relics of the Apollo flights. There was a full size Saturn rocket laying lengthwise in this building. This is a huge rocket. If I remember correctly, it is about 340 feet long. It was the keystone to our manned flights to the moon. We spent A LOT of time at this tour stop, and we finally had to tear ourselves away, even thought we left quite a bit behind without seeing it.
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On the way to this first stop, we drove past the MASSIVE Vehicle Assembly Building. This is the building where they prepare the Space Shuttles for launch. The inside of this building is cavernous, to the extent that it has a special ventilation system in place, otherwise clouds could form within the building, and there could even be rain. That’s a BIG building!” (more…)

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