Gray Line Orlando
Kennedy Space Center and Airboat Safari
Come aboard and enjoy an adventurous space journey and learn about the space, and technologies that are required for space exploration. Not only this, you will come across various launch operation such as Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle program which will leave you thrilled and amazed to the core. Learn more about the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station which works very close to the Kennedy Space Centre and also, how the two entities share resources and other facilities on each other's property. It is known that the launch of the first Apollo flight from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Kennedy Space Centre, provided maximum help and support from the Kennedy Space Centre Launch Complex 39 and the Launch Operation Directorate. Along with the space launches, the centre also manages to launch robotics and commercial crew mission and also researches commercial food production and In Situ Resource Utilisation for off Earth exploration. The centre is about 144,00 acres and houses more than 700 facilities, among which the notables are 525 feet tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking largest rockets of NASA, the Operations and Checkout Building, for housing crew quarters and 3 mile long Shuttle Landing Facility. More than 60 interactive, touch screen experiences and high tech simulators invite guests to be the astronaut, bringing to life the people, passion and patriotism behind a 30 year Space Shuttle Program of NASA as well as the complexity of the engineering marvel that launched the Hubble Space Telescope and built the International Space Station known as ISS.
Itinerary
Upon arrival at the Kennedy Space Center, Gray Line guests will have the opportunity to have a brief meet and greet welcome from an astronaut. This is an added bonus only for riders of Gray Line transportation, however, please note this is a complimentary added bonus that can't be guaranteed but happens most days only with Gray Line. At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, you will learn everything about space travel. During the narrated NASA bus tour, you will find yourself standing inside the launch control room and looking at an actual Saturn V rocket, the largest rocket ever to fly. You can also take pictures of the shuttle launch pads. With a little luck, you might even see a space shuttle there. Also at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, enjoy the Shuttle Launch Experience. It replicates the sights, sounds and feelings of a shuttle launch, an incredible journey of launching into space and orbiting Earth aboard a Space Shuttle. Guest crew members strap in and go vertical for launch in a one of a kind, motion based simulator, the only realistic simulation of a launch ever created. The 5 minutes experience sequence culminates with a breath taking view of the Earth. After the bus tour, sit back and enjoy an IMAX movie. While at the visitor centre complex, immerse yourself in Space Shuttle Atlantis. The world’s most comprehensive attraction devoted to the space shuttle, Kennedy Space Center visitor complex’s new Space Shuttle Atlantis brings visitors nose to nose with the priceless Atlantis spacecraft as only astronauts have seen it before, with payload bay doors open as if it were floating in space. More than 60 interactive, touch screen experiences and high tech simulators invite guests to be the astronaut, bringing to life the people, passion and patriotism behind NASA’s 30 years Space Shuttle Program as well as the complexity of the engineering marvel that launched the Hubble Space Telescope and built the International Space Station. Guests can conduct a virtual EVA, or extravehicular activity, practice docking to the ISS, extract cargo from the payload bay, create sonic booms and glide to a landing on the Re entry Slide, experience the sensation of floating in space, explore a high fidelity replica of the ISS, virtually mate Atlantis to the external tank, kick up a virtual chemical reaction to launch the shuttle, get an x ray view of Atlantis interior, experience an orbital sunrise, strap in to the sights, sounds and sensations of a shuttle launch, take the helm at the shuttle cockpit, and much more. This is the best expansion Kennedy Space Center has ever offered and gives you yet another reason to come visit. Why not choose to stroll by a scale size space shuttle, look at a moon rock or try space ice cream? This is a day of fun for the whole family. The tour also includes a 30 minutes airboat ride to discover the beauty of the swamps. Look for exotic plants, flowers and wildlife such as the main inhabitant of the swamp the alligator. We transport you over to the St Johns River where you will board the airboat for 30 minutes of high speed adventures gliding across the waters. From nature to space, this tour offers something for everyone.
Includes
Activities: Airboat ride Roundtrip transportation from Orlando, Kissimmee, Disney or Lake Buena Vista meeting points Admission ticket for Kennedy Space Center Admission ticket to the Astronaut Hall of Fame
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