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| sandhill crane |
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| gopher tortoise twice as big as our own deceased family pet |
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| white tailed deer |
Moved north and stopped a night at Lake Kissimmee State Park, a beautiful park where we had a bike ride and saw a gopher tortoise, one gator, a dead armadillo floating in the lake, two sandhill cranes, a bald eagle, all the usual waders and three white tailed deer.
Next day we landed at the Space coast near Titusville,got on a great County campsite with full services including wifi for $25.
We are on the river's edge with a superb view of the Shuttle launches at the Kennedy Space Center - we may have to wait some time to see one!
Today we spent the day at Kennedy Space Center, what an amazing and informative place!
We started in the Astronaut Encounter theatre listening to an astronaut who had been on 3 shuttle missions - fabulous!
Then to the IMAX theatre for "Space Station 3D" - a select few have been aboard the space station but through the breathtaking special effects we joined the Space Station Astronauts as they live, work and adapt to months of weightlessness.
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Next we went on our bus tour to the LC-39 Observation Gantry (where the active shuttle launches happen) then to the Apollo/Saturn V Center, where finally we spoke to a man who was involved in sorting out that famous episode "Houston - we have a problem" and he explained everything and finally I understood how they launched and what bits fell off and how they landed!
We saw the Rocket Garden and the Shuttle launch Experience was absolutely fantastic - we got vertical! - strapped in for the sights, sounds and excitement of a space shuttle launch (Ash - you would have loved it!)
To end our day we saw the "Hubble 3D" in the IMAX theatre - we floated beside space-walking astronauts and experienced the powerful story of the Hubble Space telescope.
"And I think to myself - what a wonderful world!"
Today we spent the day at Kennedy Space Center, what an amazing and informative place!
We started in the Astronaut Encounter theatre listening to an astronaut who had been on 3 shuttle missions - fabulous!
Then to the IMAX theatre for "Space Station 3D" - a select few have been aboard the space station but through the breathtaking special effects we joined the Space Station Astronauts as they live, work and adapt to months of weightlessness.
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Next we went on our bus tour to the LC-39 Observation Gantry (where the active shuttle launches happen) then to the Apollo/Saturn V Center, where finally we spoke to a man who was involved in sorting out that famous episode "Houston - we have a problem" and he explained everything and finally I understood how they launched and what bits fell off and how they landed!
We saw the Rocket Garden and the Shuttle launch Experience was absolutely fantastic - we got vertical! - strapped in for the sights, sounds and excitement of a space shuttle launch (Ash - you would have loved it!)
To end our day we saw the "Hubble 3D" in the IMAX theatre - we floated beside space-walking astronauts and experienced the powerful story of the Hubble Space telescope.
"And I think to myself - what a wonderful world!"
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| Launch complex 39 - pad A - all remaining space shuttle flights will take place from here |
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| would have loved to see this live but you can't have everything in life! |
Sooo jealous love this.
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