Last year we watched as shuttle orbiter Endeavour left the Kennedy Space Center for its final flight, to Los Angeles. Endeavour is now on display at the California ScienCenter. Here’s video of Endeavour, including details of how the orbiter is protected from earthquakes. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di4Lwqz8B7c Endeavour is currently in a temporary building. A permanent gallery will [...]

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex unveiled the first phase of improvements designed to enhance the guest experience earlier this year. The attraction’s new $16 million entry includes a grand plaza and fountain; ticket stations and self-service kiosks; will call, guest services and information stations; a retail shop; and a restaurant. The enhancements are part of a [...]

Witness the newest astronauts get inducted to the U.S Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Astronauts Curt Brown, Eileen Collins and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D will be joined by more than 30 legendary astronauts and space icons welcoming them to the Hall of Fame. This year’s [...]

There was a launch this morning at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, but it’s not the kind you usually associate with the Space Center. Some unhappy fowl were launched at a spaceman holding a photo of a pic to officially open the new Angry Birds Space Encounter attraction. You most likely know Angry Birds from [...]

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering Florida residents an exclusive $99 four-pack special for a limited time. Now through March 24, a party of four can experience all the fun and excitement Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has to offer at the special price of $99 plus tax. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex features [...]

For the first time ever, the Angry Birds are flying from the digital world into the real world this March at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Based off the Angry Birds Space Encounter app, guests will be able to experience up to seven interactive exhibits featuring the famous birds. Guests will start their journey by [...]

When you visit the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this spring, keep an extra careful eye on the skies. You may spot some mad fowl flying through the air. Angry Birds Space Encounter is set to open at the complex this spring. Will it be an Angry Birds playground? Maybe a video game display? Or [...]

Kennedy Space Center and The Astronauts Memorial Foundation will be holding a ceremony honoring of the crew of space shuttle Columbia STS-107 in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the Columbia disaster at 10 a.m. on Feb. 1, 2013. The ceremony is being held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex at the Space Mirror [...]

Guests can celebrate the holiday sights and sounds at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for their second annual “Holidays in Space.” Now through Jan. 1, 2013, the Visitor Complex will be adorned with an array of holiday decorations and feature daily visits and storytelling with Santa and Mrs. Claus, as well as performances of favorite [...]

Last week, the space shuttle orbiter Atlantis was officially turned over to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, with a fireworks finale. Atlantis was then able to be viewed inside the new gallery building for one week only. The building will now be sealed, and the adjacent displays completed. Atlantis won’t be able to be [...]

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program will hold its last ever move of an orbiter as Atlantis makes its historic final journey on Nov. 2, 2012 at Kennedy Space Center. Space Shuttle Atlantis will travel nearly 10 miles from Kennedy Space Center to its new home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where it will be [...]

Space shuttle orbiter Endeavour left the Kennedy Space Center at dawn this morning.  It was the last time an orbiter flew over Florida. Endeavour left for its new home, the California Science Center in Los Angeles. We have video here of Endeavour beginning the flight: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEVPD36Qvo Endeavour flew west, right over Walt Disney World, as [...]

Space Shuttle Endeavour is departing the Kennedy Space Center for the very last time after 19 years of service, 25 missions, 133 astronauts carried, 299 days in space and 122,883,151 miles traveled. Guests are invited to join the farewell celebration Sept. 14 to 17, 2012, at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The public has the [...]

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is where many spacecraft are designed, built and tested. This is a full size mock up of the Webb telescope. It’s a very different design, designed to capture infrared light. Light is focused from the 18 hexagonal primary mirrors. The five diamond-shaped layers unfurled below the mirror [...]

The Up-Close Vehicle Assembly Building Tour began last November at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is where rockets are built before they are moved to a launch pad. Now, space shuttle orbiter Atlantis is in storage in the VAB. Tour guests can see Atlantis before the orbiter is …

A new up-close launch pad tour at Kennedy Space Center takes you within the restricted perimeter fence of pad 39A. This is where Apollo rockets and space shuttles were launched. Here is a view of the top of the Rotating Service Service Structure which was used to hold and deliver the payload into the …

For the first time in the 50-year history of Kennedy Space Center, NASA is now allowing public visitors to tour one of the launch pads from which the space shuttles and Apollo Saturn V moon rockets were launched. The KSC (Kennedy Space Center) Up-Close: Launch Pad Tour, the latest to open of three special Kennedy [...]

This is the future home of Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. As Atlantis is prepared for display next year, it is interesting to see what was done to prepare Discovery for display at the Smithsonian. (NASA photo) A similar view of Discovery. The Forward Reaction Control System (behind …

Several weeks ago the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery left the Kennedy Space Center on its final flight. It was carried onboard a 747, and was flown to the Dulles Airport outside Washington DC. Discovery was quickly added to the Smithsonian collection, at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i9lg_3WssM This video shows what it is like [...]

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA is allowing Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex guests inside the Launch Control Center – where NASA directors and engineers supervised all of the 152 launches for the space shuttle and Apollo programs. The KSC Up-Close: Launch Control Center Tour, the second in Kennedy Space Center’s [...]