Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is introducing new entertainment for the annual Holidays in Space event for 2017 with the internationally acclaimed performance group Fighting Gravity. Fighting Gravity’s black-light illusion dance performances gained notoriety in 2009, as third-place finalists on the popular NBC TV show, “America’s Got Talent.” WHO: Nightly show is included with admission […]
It was on this date in 1968 that Apollo 8 became the first mission to orbit the moon in a manned spacecraft. The mission started on 21st December 1968 at 12:51:00 UTC and lasted 6 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes as the three-astronaut crew — Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders […]
Continue reading …We haven’t been to Kennedy Space Center for approximately eighteen months so just recently we decided to venture out and see what’s going on at the Space Coast. As always, a visit to Kennedy Space Center is a fascinating experience and one where you can stand back, take a breath and just contemplate all the […]
Continue reading …The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® will close Nov. 2, 2015, at its current location in preparation for a new, next-generation attraction at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex – Heroes and Legends, featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. The visitor complex broke ground on Heroes and Legends in May 2015 and is scheduled to […]
Continue reading …Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering a special, limited-time, limited-capacity program called “Fly With An Astronaut” in which guests can spend a thrilling half day experiencing the highlights of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, including a ‘flight’ on Shuttle Launch Experience®, with a veteran NASA space shuttle astronaut. Limited to just 43 guests per […]
Continue reading …Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex today broke ground on a next-generation attraction designed to touch the hearts and minds of the next generation of space explorers – Heroes and Legends, featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame®, scheduled to open in 2016. Held on the eve of this year’s U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction, […]
Continue reading …Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will celebrate the one-year anniversary of the $100-million Space Shuttle AtlantisSM attraction with Atlantis Astronaut Adventure on Thursday, Oct. 9 featuring 12 NASA astronauts, all of whom flew on the historic orbiter. The 12 Atlantis astronauts – Clayton Anderson, Bo Bobko, John Creighton, Charlie Walker, Hoot Gibson, Fred Gregory, Ken […]
Continue reading …45 years ago today Neil Armstrong’s booted foot, pressed firmly in the lunar soil, symbolized the stunning success of man’s highest adventure. The achievement of man’s first step on the moon came on the evening of 20th July, 1969 and realized the ambitious goal set by the late President John F. Kennedy some eight years […]
Continue reading …The Space Race between the two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, lasted from 1955 to 1972. It all began on 2nd August 1955 when the Soviet Union responded to the United States announcement, four days earlier, of intent to launch artificial satellites, by declaring they would also launch a satellite […]
Continue reading …From Nov. 29 through Jan. 5, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex celebrates the third annual “Holidays in Space.” The Visitor Complex will be adorned with a stunning array of holiday decorations, host daily visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus and spark the imagination with the new “Through the Toy Box: An Out-of-this-World Collection,” featuring toys, […]
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