Photo Update: A look around Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Photo Update: A look around Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

By Kirstin Wright Recently, I paid a much overdue visit to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, which is only about an hour drive from the Orlando area. The main purpose of this trip was to see the new Atlantis exhibit, which opened this past summer. However, any visit to the KSC is…

Your last view of Space Shuttle Atlantis until next summer, plus other changes at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

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…

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Space Shuttle Atlantis to make historic final journey at Kennedy Space Center

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…

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Space Shuttle Atlantis now seen in Kennedy Space Center’s VAB Up-Close Tour

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 towed…