Kennedy+Space+Centre

KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE - (make that "Center") As we had to take Van Hiep back to Orlando for his flight home we decided to take a flight too and booked ourselves into New Orleans for a couple of days. But first we had to visit the Kennedy Space Centre in the morning. This is a huge complex and only having about 4 hours to spare we raced around seeing and doing what we could. Seeing the size of a real Saturn rocket (the ones that took the lads to the moon) was quite surprising - its HUGE! Great memorabilia and information everywhere - Gail couldn't wait to try the Shuttle Launch Experience - yep, you get that funny cheeks feeling as they simulate takeoff.
 * [[image:IMG_7172.jpg caption="approaching the centre"]] || [[image:launch.jpg caption="one of the launch sites"]] ||
 * [[image:IMG_7189.jpg caption="Saturn rocket - left over when Apollo missions were scrapped"]] || [[image:IMG_7181.jpg caption="The Control Room for early flights"]] ||
 * [[image:IMG_7208.jpg caption="a recovered Lunar Module"]] || [[image:IMG_7211.jpg caption="Space Shuttle "Explorer" - not open to public yet!"]] ||