This day at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex includes the KSC Tour of NASA’s Launch Headquarters, both IMAX films, all shows and exhibits and a visit to the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The tour includes stops at the four story LC-39 observation gantry where guests get a bird’s eye view of the space shuttle launch pads and parts of the world’s busiest space launch facility. The second tour stop is the acclaimed Apollo/Saturn V Center, where guests walk beneath a massive Saturn V rocket, relive Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon and experience the thunderous rumble of a Saturn V moon rocket lift off. Later, guests can take a trip to the International Space Station Center where they’ll see real parts of the space station being readied for Launch!
Their day continues with IMAX® movie screenings of the new “Magnificent Desolation” where they explore the moon in full 3-D, and “Space Station 3-D,” which takes them on a virtual trip to the International Space Station in a fully immersive big-screen environment. Guests also enjoy the many other shows and exhibits at the Visitor Complex including a chance to meet a real astronaut at the Astronaut Encounter Show and enjoy the zany live-action show “Mad Mission to Mars 2025.”
The day is topped off with a visit to the Astronaut Hall of Fame, located at the entrance to Kennedy Space Center and a short 5-minute drive from the Visitor Complex. This attraction features the world’s largest collection of personal astronaut mementos, plus historic spacecraft, one-of-a-kind space legacies and hands on activities. Guests can sit in a mission control console, take a virtual moonwalk, feel the pull of 4 Gs in the G-Force Simulator and land the Space Shuttle.
Opened in May of 2007 and included with Admission is the new Shuttle Launch Experience. Shuttle Launch Experience 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 crewmembers 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 five-minute experience sequence culminates with a breath-taking view of Earth from space.
This ticket allows your guests to do everything in one day or return for a second day within a seven-day period.
Tour Info
Times: Guests can use this Maximum Access Pass for 2 consecutive days – Kennedy Space Center operates every day of the year except for Christmas Day and certain launch dates. (These dates can not be predefined due to NASA requirements.)
The Center opening hours are 9.00am to 5.30pm.
Running Time: 2 consecutive day’s entrance
Travel
From Orlando on State Road 528
Travel east on SR 528 until you reach the SR 407 exit going to Kennedy Space Center and Titusville. Take SR 407 until it dead ends into SR 405. Turn right (east) onto SR 405 and follow the signs for Kennedy Space Center. You will travel approximately 9 miles on SR 405. The KSC Visitor Complex will be on your right.
From Orlando on State Road 50
Travel east on SR 50 until you pass under the I-95 overpass. The next intersection is SR 50 and SR 405. Turn right (east) onto SR 405 and follow the signs for Kennedy Space Center. You will travel approximately 11 miles on SR 405. The KSC Visitor Complex will be on your right.
From North on Interstate 95
Traveling from the north (Daytona Beach), continue along I-95 and take Exit #215 (SR 50). Turn left (east) onto SR 50. The next intersection is SR 50 and SR 405. Turn right (east) on to SR 405 and follow the signs for Kennedy Space Center. You will travel approximately 11 miles on SR 405. The KSC Visitor Complex will be on your right.
From South on Interstate 95
Traveling from the south (Miami), continue along I-95 and take Exit #212 (SR 407). Head east/north on SR 407 until it dead-ends into SR 405. Turn right (east) on SR 405 and follow the signs for Kennedy Space Center. You will travel approximately 9 miles on SR 405. The KSC Visitor Complex will be on your right.
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