Friday 24th October 2014
Today we left from Jacksonville and headed towards Cape Canaveral to see the Kennedy Space Center and the space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis was the only one of the four that we had not seen, so we thought while we were here we better do that one as well. Atlantis is set up so that it looks like it is in orbit with the cargo doors open.
We were about 2 hours away as we had to head further south to get there. Passed by Daytona on the way. We really only wanted to see the shuttle as we had been to the Kennedy Space Center only 2 years ago.
Paid our money and went straight to the shuttle. Wow it was impressive. The way it sat in the display and the building it is housed in was so well set up. We ended up spending almost 3 hours just looking at the shuttle display before leaving.
By this time it was dinner time and we hit Denny's tonight before checking into out Motel at Melbourne Florida!!
Tomorrow it's about a 1 hour drive to Orlando to the airport and then a flight to Seattle. That will take us all day to get there.
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| passing daytona on the way |
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| greg at nasa |
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| shuttle tank and boosters |
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| atlantis |
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| engines |
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| open cargo bay |
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| underside white from heat on re-entry |
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| being a kid |
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| all 6 shuttles, rip columbia and challenger |
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| outside display of rockets |
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| love how the sun caught the tank and boosters |
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