Kennedy Space Center on the East coast of Florida is a gem if you like NASA, Space and Technology. Kennedy Space Center has some simulation rides that I will show you in a separate video, but this is a complete tour and overview of NASA and the Kennedy Space center complex. You will not be disappointed with all that this park has to offer. Kennedy Space Center needs to be on your bucket list. There also is so much interactive exhibits for your kids.
And if you are visiting by cruise ship, this is the best thing to do when in port canaveral. You will see rockets, the Atlantic Space Shuttle a bus will even take you around and show you some of the highlights on the grounds of Cape Canaveral. It is a great way to spend the day in port.
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Hey, can you hear me well? I'm praying to angels and wishing on stars, that we'll find each other no matter, cause 5000 miles is breaking my heart.
Welcome to NASA Kennedy Space Center. What an amazing entrance. You see the rockets in the background there? There's the NASA sign. We're going to show you all over this place today.
Let's start the journey. You come here. There's maps everywhere to show you where you're at. And there's John F. Kennedy. You can hear him talking in the background.
Look at all these rockets. This is what you see when you first get here. These have all been in space.
Alright, we're heading into the bus tour. This is a must here to do.
And today you'll be following me behind the gates on this exclusive bus tour of Kennedy Space Center. Our journey will take us past active facilities and end at the visitor complex's own Apollo Saturn five sector.
Lockheed Martin has developed a capsule called Orion that will sit atop the SLS rocket. This capsule is designed to facilitate human exploration of the moon and eventually Mars.
Great areas in the center of the building. See the white one? Take your eyes, focus all the way down to the ground. Those are not mouth holes. They're people doors. They're industrial sized people doors.
The largest self powered land vehicle in the world. It was originally built in 1965 for the Apollo program and has since been updated to accommodate the space shuttle and now NASA's SLS rocket.
Weighing in at 6 million pounds and capable of lifting and hauling 18 million pounds. The crawler is an engineering marvel.
All right, and this camera is not going to give you the view of how big this actually is, but it is incredible.
Look at this. We're underneath this rocket.
It goes the whole length of this building.
Just look at the size of this rocket. The bus tour takes you out here to I think it's called the Saturn five location.
I'm so excited to be here and it did not disappoint. Just following Todd around right now.
This is where they got all the spacecraft and put the flag up.
This is the Apollo one tribute area.
If you love history, you gotta come in here.
This is the view that the Apollo mission saw as they were getting on board.
We are all born in spirit.
There's the lunar rover.
I know I'm standing in here, but look at the size of these people.
It's like you can actually see how big this really is.
And here is a model of it.
Shows you the different stage, the first stage, the second and the third stage of those rockets.
God, look at this.
It is the actual capsule.
Well, one of the Apollo missions, if you're a space buff, I tell you there's so much in here history.
Just look at all the different spacesuits they got in here.
This is the actual flight plan of Apollo seven.
I want to see these engines.
I know from the other side.
Wow.
Just look at the size of these jet engines.
I just find that very interesting.
Look at the motor parts up there on the outside of these things.
Kennedy Space Center.
You could see the rocket behind us, but you gotta come to the Kennedy Space Center.
It's so incredible, isn't it?
Yeah, everything's a lot larger than I imagined it was going to be.
Yeah, the buildings and everything.
They call this the service module.
And you know one thing about this place, you go through at your own pace.
This is like a hologram of one of the astronauts.
But you can ask him questions and he will answer them.
We are go for launch.
All right, and this is the original countdown clock for the Apollo missions.
Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Kennedy Space Center.
This is one of the booster rockets of the Space Shuttle.
This is another one of the buildings you can go in.
This is the Atlantis.
This is what I came to see.
Oh my gosh, I tell you, it was worth the price of admission right here.
This is incredible.
No words can describe that this thing's been in space and I'm standing right next to it.
So much to see in here.
Oh my gosh, you can even sit in the Atlantis.
Think you can do it, huh?
Sure.
Wow, look at this.
Think I can drive this thing?
Look here.
It's a satellite in this place.
Oh no, it's a telescope.
Only at NASA.
I tell you one thing, everywhere, every corner you turn, you see something different.
And you can even go down.
We're going to walk down the stairs, but you could see these places underneath.
I tell you, the more I look like this, I feel like I'm in Disneyland.
I can't believe I'm actually seeing the real Atlantis.
That was launched into space, what did they say, like 26 times, something like that?
T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 3, 2, 1, lift off.
I know it had like 150 million miles on it.
This is the burn tile.
Just look at all the burn marks from this thing coming back to Earth.
This is cool.
They even got a little, almost like a space center in here the kids can crawl through.
Does it look like he's flying in space?
And they even got a slide.
They got all kinds of holograms and things to tell you stories through this part.
There's just so much.
We've seen the Atlantis.
There's all kinds of stuff for kids to do, activities.
Look over here.
There's the wheels of the space shuttle.
All right, we're about to go on the shuttle.
This is the space launch simulator.
It's a zero-minute wait.
I can't believe it.
It's on a Sunday.
We got no wait.
I know.
It's been incredible.
Here we go.
Are you scared?
No.
I'm worried I'm going to get sick, though.
She thinks she's got to get sick because of the motion sickness.
Ten seconds to launch.
Here we go.
We're getting ready to get put into the space shuttle.
Oh, my God.
Here we go.
Oh, man, we are flying.
Five, nine, six hundred.
Wave goodbye to the external tank and say hello to outer space.
Whenever you see a space launch, hopefully you'll remember your experience here today.
And at least in spirit, you'll be on board.
And who knows?
Maybe one day you will fly with us.
This is the exit of the space shuttle launch.
It's beautiful.
I don't know if you can see the stars in here.
There's the International Space Center.
All right, check this out.
You can be an astronaut here.
They've got all kinds of things.
You can control the robotic arms.
There's one of the original NASA buses that took the astronauts out to the rockets in the shuttle.
All right, here it is.
The world's largest space shop.
This place is massive.
It just keeps going on and on and on.
They even got a second floor of space memorabilia.
This is heavy.
But the water makes it not heavy.
Oh, and they got food here.
Here's just one of them, the Orbit Cafe.
All right, if you've got kids, you want to come in here.
Planet Play.
This is all kinds of different play areas here.
You've got things that kids can climb on way up there.
Tunnel.
There's a Mars tower.
I'll tell you one thing.
I wish I was four again.
There's plenty of stuff to do.
They got an IMAX theater.
Over here is the Mars rover.
Let's see what that looks like.
And now we're on Mars.
All right, and if this is not beautiful, you've got the palm trees.
But this is the International Space Center.
Look at all these countries' flags.
This is called the Rocket Garden.
Let's just stroll through here and see what we can see.
Man, these are original rockets that have came through NASA in some way, shape, or form.
That one back there in the back has got my attention.
And there's histories of every one of these launches.
USA, United States of America, 1957.
Cold War cooperation.
But look at this place.
There's the gateway behind it and so many more rockets.
What do you think of this place, hun?
It's pretty incredible.
I'm having a great day.
It is insane.
Look at this thruster motor.
I think this is one of the SpaceX rockets.
Delta II.
That's it, the Rocket Garden.
All right, we're now in the Gateway Building.
I'm not sure what this place is, but it's pretty fabulous looking, that's for sure.
Look at that rocket overhead.
So there's four different flight simulators when you get into the Gateway Building.
And it's to simulate time travel to go wherever you'd like to go.
Good morning.
Hey baby.
Welcome back to Earth.
All right, again, we're at Port Canaveral.
We're wrapping our day up, but I'll tell you one thing.
This was amazing, wasn't it?
It was.
What was your highlight?
The Atlantis Building, which is where we're still at.
Yeah, the Atlantis Building.
But so much to do.