Kennedy Space Center

is situated at

Cape Canaveral

and is in about an hour and a half drive from Orlando. The complex includes the NASA launch pad, Mission control center and an exhibition-entertainment halls for visitors. There you can get acquainted with the history of exploration of the space by the States, see the Saturn V rocket, the Apollo capsule, watch 3D movies in the IMAX cinema and feel the overload, which is experienced by astronauts during launching into space. In general, we spent the whole day in

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

.

Opening hours are from 9:00 to 17:00. We were among the first.

Rocket Garden.

Mercury Atlas carrier rocket. Mercury project was initiated in 1957. Different configurations of Atlas flew up to 2004, in general from Cape Canaveral were made over 300 launches and a little less from the spaceport in California.

The ticket price includes a bus tour that allows you to see the launch complex and to visit the Museum of the Apollo-Saturn V. The first bus leaves at 10 am, then they run every 15 minutes So we had time to walk around the visitors center and look into the store of near-space gifts.

In this pavilion you can watch the start of the spacecraft, as if you are in the Mission control center. Of course, everything is not real, but the sound effects and rattling of the glasses are quite realistic.

And this is the very pavilion of the Apollo-Saturn V. The central place in the hangar is allotted to reconstructed starting machine of the Saturn V. This is the most powerful booster in the world. It is huge, its length is 110 m. In total, it made 13 starts, the last one was in 1973.

The bus that brought the astronauts to the launch site. It appears in one of the 3D movies.
Stand dedicated to landing of a man on the moon. Have not decided whether I believe it or not.

The first stage of Saturn.

Nozzles of the second stage.

A small model that allows you to see what's inside the rocket.

The famous lunar module.

Third stage.

That's where it undocked.

As I understood, this is the Apollo service module. 

Inside the Apollo module.

The command module of Apollo 14.

Hall, where different space suits of astronauts are exhibited. There is a space suit owned by Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, who went to the moon in 1971.

That's not all. We returned to Visitor Center and continued the program. All points of interest and attractions are described on the official web-site of Kennedy Space Center, there's even a visit scheduler is suggested. Choose what you want and print on a sheet of paper with the access time and hours of the session.