Kennedy Space Center in Florida 
United States of America 

The Kennedy Space Center is located about an hour's drive from Orlando to the east coast of Florida. It is the only place in the Western world from which people can fly into space. 

The Kennedy Space Center was built in 1966, initially to the families of the astronauts to serve as information opportunity. Today the Space Center has the same entertainment value as the parks in Orlando. Each year more than 2 million visitors come to the Kennedy Space Center to learn about the space and to get to experience at the visitor program. They also watch the launching and landing of the missiles.

You enter the Kennedy Space Center at the Visitor Complex. There at the counter you can pick up a German-speaking information device on bail which you carry with you during your stay in the exhibits.

The first step to the topic “space” we recommend the films in the Visitor Complex will be shown: 

The Dream is alive 
A presentation on the beauty of outer space and the description of events and daily operations in space. 

L5: First City in Space 
The vision of a city in space using 3 D computer graphics based on data and images from NASA. The climax of this film is the flight to Mars and landing on a comet. 

Quest for Life
This is a description of the search for extraterrestrial life in the galaxy. 

In the exhibition areas of the Visitor Complex you will find rock samples of meteorites from the moon. In addition to this displays parts of the former to be spaceships are also shown.

In the Mercury Mission Control Room you have the opportunity to see original video and hear audio recordings and interviews of the parties who were involved in the Mercury mission and learn their experience. 

The most important person in the history of space you will find in the Hall of Discovery. 

In the outdoor area you can visit the Rocket Garden. There are several rockets shown which were used in the first space missions. Today they are exhibits in the Visitor Complex.

All the astronauts of the NASA who have lost their lives during the space program were honored on an outside memorial plaque. The last entry is the crash of the space glider over Texas a few years ago. Such accidents despite the best precautions can not be avoided and therefore there will be new entries on this table from time to time.

Another exhibit in the outdoor area is a walk-reconstruction of a shuttle. When you walk through this model, you gain an idea how narrow the working space of the astronauts is where they have to work. 

When you have sufficiently explored the Visitor Complex and the grounds you should participate in one of the bus tours which are offered. Depending on the time which you spend at the various stops of the ride the longer the entire journey will last.

The Red Tour takes you to the assembly halls, where the Space Shuttle is built together and to the launch center. You also get information about the pilot training. 

The blue route leads to the Air Force satellite stations as well as their monitoring and control rooms. On this tour you will learn something about the history of spaceflight.

The last bus tour has nothing to do with the space but it leads you through the animal reserves which surround the whole Kennedy Space Complex.

Near the Kennedy Space Center you can visit the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. It is a Hall of Fame for the first astronauts who went to space.

In a pseudo-shuttle orbiter a cinema is install in which you can take a realistic journey into space. You will also find there a flight simulator where you can gather initial experience as a fighter pilot.

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