Kennedy Space Center

So, one day we spend at an earthly amusement park and the next 2 days we spend at the epitome of Matt's realm of the Universe; Kennedy Space Center. We started out in the afternoon on Saturday and found out that the center was closing in about 2 hours, but if we bought our tickets we could spend the next day free. The first day, Saturday, we watched an Imax film about space, Which I think was called INTO THE DREAM, and was a movie that I had bought Matt when we lived in Florida and some how in the years that we lived in Utah it disappeared from our collection of videos, (maybe it went to where ever our wedding video went- the missing sock scenario but without the dryer.) WE also had the kids check out the gift shops so that they could decided on their memory purchase of this part of the trip. Mckenna ended up picking out a snow globe for her friend Kyleigh who collects snow globes.

Yes, the next day was Sunday, but Matt really wanted to go back and so we spent the entire day at Kennedy. We scheduled a really cool first activity with a Lunch with an Astronaut.
We ate a buffet style catered lunch and then a guy came out and showed us a film on the NASA program, (Mckenna the whole time kept saying," where is the Astronaut, I thought we were suppose to have him sitting here eating lunch with us," after awhile she just said," this is a rip off," and then the Astronaut came in and she was okay,) Astronaut Jon McBride told us about his career at NASA gave the kids a great message about how Drugs, alcohol and the like will ruin your chances of getting in the Astonaut program and how it is better to be a leader and if someone asks you if you want the drug that they have say no, and then talk them out of using it themselves. It was a great start to our fun time at Kennedy Space Center. Mr. McBride also did a Q&A session and pictures. You could take a picture with your camera or buy one of theirs. Our picture came out better so we were lucky didn't have to pay out anything for that.

The next stop was to take a behind the scene tour near the Launch Pads. It was very neat to see the shuttle on Launch Pad B ready for it's first mission since the Challenger disaster, the launch was suppose to be while we were in Florida, but they had to scrub it til the middle of July (about a few days after we left,) and then they scrubbed it again for another week later. I ended up watching the launch at ReZults while walking on the Treadmill. It was an amazing sight. It remind me of our time where we watched a night launch when the boys were really little and caused me to reflect on so many memories from our time living in Florida.

While we were on the tour we visited an area where they held sections of the International Space station modules, that was really neat to see, because some of the modules the shuttle was taking with them to help restock, add to and make the space station more liveable. Matt absolutely loved this part of our vacation. The tour guide was a gal who was a volunteer but worked for a company that made some of the parts for the shuttle. She was so filled with information and you could tell that she loved her job and wanted to help others enjoy their Space experience. She and Matt talked when everyone else was just looking around, he got to ask great questions and she had very good answers that help him to quench his thirst for information.

We also got to see the building where they filmed the T.V. series, I DREAM OF JEANIE. That was fun because I always liked that show. The guide told us that they use the building for administration purposes, but not like they did during the glory days of the Apollo program. Now, it was just for non-consiquential staff where during the Apollo program, they had all the head staff and big wigs working their.

After the tour we stopped at the Rocket grave yard and walked over a bridge that lead to the area of the memorial to all those who have lost their lives for the Space Program, the kids weren't very interested in this until they noticed the Alligator's under the pier to the memorial. You would think that they hadn't seen an alligator in their whole life! When they had just seen one the day before, we spent a half an hour looking at those alligators, who were residing with a bunch of fish and a few turtles. Kyler couldn't understand why the alligators didn't eat the fish or turtles, I told him that they probably ate the fish but he turtles were protected by their shell. He had been really worried about the turtles, because we thought that they were cute and so he felt better with my non factual information. I mean really, I have no idea if they would eat the turtles or not, but it made sense to my mind.















Hey, does any one know the Answer to this question? What is the difference between Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral?

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