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Day 7 - Florida - Kennedy Space Center

USA | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 | Views [302] | Comments [2]

I spent the whole day on tour around NASA.  Everything is perfect!  The buses, the lawn, no rubbish, the roads, the museums... etc.  These guys have some money hey!  You cannot believe how big NASA is, they have just so much land and everything is spaced apart by miles.  Today I saw the launch pad of yesterdays launch, the actual International Space Station preparation facility, the Apollo Mission Control Room, the Saturn V Rocket museum, the Shuttle landing strip, the Astronaut Hall of Fame and experienced the new Shuttle launch simulator which was super cool.  Seeing an actual Saturn V Rocket (the one used to go to the moon) was simply amazing.  This thing is 500ft long!  NASA is a must see - but you need 2 days.  Check out the pics
http://picasaweb.google.com/jamesc71

Now I have to sort through my bags and mail a heap of stuff back as the bag won't close and it weighs a tonne already with all the crap I have bought.  Doh!

I think I will spend tomorrow sorting my stuff out and trying to get the GPS connected on the bike.  Then I think I will go to Orlando in the afternoon, find a motel and then go to the Epcot Centre.  Everybody says to spend a couple of days in Orlando as its meant to be one of the best Adventure Park places in the States.

Tags: Sightseeing

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Hi James,<br><br>The blog is great and the pics are even better. Lucky bastard. <br><br>Cheers Dad

  Dad Oct 25, 2007 11:56 PM

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James
You lucky bugger, sounds like you're having some fun,
I'll let you know that Paul O'Shannesy is seriously jealous as he missed out on seeing the launch during his trip as it was delayed (twice!!).

I'll have to put this on my list of places to go, An item to go with your photo of Alan Shepard's Mercury Suit: At National Air and Space Museum they have the golf club from his moon trip......

Happy riding dude

  Tom Oct 30, 2007 1:06 PM

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