Sun is shining once again but cold – 14º
Feeling better and heading for the tour buses, to join about 500 other passengers for a trip to the Kennedy Space Centre.
Really is a massive site, covering 7,000 acres, with buildings for SpaceX, Blue Horizon and Boeing alongside the NASA complex.
Started with a bus ride to the Saturn buildings, passing the gigantic Modular Assembly Building, with the rocket transport crawler and bits of recovered boosters in the surrounding areas.
There was also a Space X Rocket on one of the distant launch pads – distant because the blast area of an exploding rocket is 3 miles.
After a couple of hours, we caught the bus back to the main centre and wandered around the Atlantis Space Shuttle exhibit, with the real shuttle on display.
The was also a model of the space station and I thought it would be a shame to miss crawling through it. As soon as I entered, I thought it was a little claustrophobic and realised that the other passengers were children. I made my way through and out the other side, where Lynne confirmed that it was a one third scale exhibit for children – Plonker!
Moon Lander display had the Eagle lander and the original flag placed on the moon by Neil Armstrong – very realistic and could be a film set😊.
Everything was very impressive and well worth the visit.
