After we got back from our bus tour, the rain stopped and we had a few hours till closing.
There was a life sized shuttle replica that you could walk through.
This was as close to a real shuttle as I'd ever be.
The building behind the ship was the Shuttle Launch Experience, which I was very much looking forward to.
Our pretend shuttle was even marked the same as the real ones.
This is the cargo bay. The cargo bay is one of the most valuable things ever invented for space travel. It is the only way that large pieces of space station or satellites were brought into space. There is currently no technology that has the same ability now that the shuttles are decommissioned.
Here's a mock up of the flight deck. Front seat!
The computer system we were told, is fairly easy to operate and hasn't changed at all in the last 30 years, since the shuttles were built.
This is the kitchen, where they store all their food.
This guy was an astronaut in his suit. It was actually kinda creepy to see a guy standing there behind the glass.
Our next adventure was the Shuttle Launch Experience, which was a realsitic simulator of a launch. Even real astronauts said it was similar to the real thing, minus the G forces.
Oh look who it is! Our old buddy Bruce. The video was about launch and what it felt like.
Then we went in to our safety briefing, where we learned how to be safe on our launch. I don't have any pictures of inside the launch itself. We were being tossed and shaken around, we couldn't have ever held on to a camera. It was a lot of fun, we got launched safely into outer space.
Outside the Shuttle Launch Experience, there was a life sized replica of the rockets for the shuttles. They had two solid rocket boosters and one external tank, just like real life.
See little me under the tanks. This gives an idea of just how huge they were.
Imaging all that fire shooting out the bottoms of the tanks! And with a Florida storm, comes a Florida rainbow! Pretty!
The last thing that we saw was the memorial garden. This honored all the astronauts who lost their lives for space travel.
This wall purposefully reflected into the sky, and had the names of all the fallen astronauts lit up.
It was a pretty somber place.
As we were walking out, it was a tradition for people to sign a banner for the astronauts of each mission. How cool to be able to be a part of history.
I wrote, "You're so lucky! <3, Carisa and Robb Adams."
There was a life sized shuttle replica that you could walk through.
This was as close to a real shuttle as I'd ever be.
The building behind the ship was the Shuttle Launch Experience, which I was very much looking forward to.
Our pretend shuttle was even marked the same as the real ones.
This is the cargo bay. The cargo bay is one of the most valuable things ever invented for space travel. It is the only way that large pieces of space station or satellites were brought into space. There is currently no technology that has the same ability now that the shuttles are decommissioned.
Here's a mock up of the flight deck. Front seat!
The computer system we were told, is fairly easy to operate and hasn't changed at all in the last 30 years, since the shuttles were built.
This is the kitchen, where they store all their food.
This guy was an astronaut in his suit. It was actually kinda creepy to see a guy standing there behind the glass.
Our next adventure was the Shuttle Launch Experience, which was a realsitic simulator of a launch. Even real astronauts said it was similar to the real thing, minus the G forces.
Oh look who it is! Our old buddy Bruce. The video was about launch and what it felt like.
Then we went in to our safety briefing, where we learned how to be safe on our launch. I don't have any pictures of inside the launch itself. We were being tossed and shaken around, we couldn't have ever held on to a camera. It was a lot of fun, we got launched safely into outer space.
Outside the Shuttle Launch Experience, there was a life sized replica of the rockets for the shuttles. They had two solid rocket boosters and one external tank, just like real life.
See little me under the tanks. This gives an idea of just how huge they were.
Imaging all that fire shooting out the bottoms of the tanks! And with a Florida storm, comes a Florida rainbow! Pretty!
The last thing that we saw was the memorial garden. This honored all the astronauts who lost their lives for space travel.
This wall purposefully reflected into the sky, and had the names of all the fallen astronauts lit up.
It was a pretty somber place.
As we were walking out, it was a tradition for people to sign a banner for the astronauts of each mission. How cool to be able to be a part of history.
I wrote, "You're so lucky! <3, Carisa and Robb Adams."
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