Picture time!
We visited the Kennedy Space Center yesterday in preparation for what was not to be launch day today. I spent some time walking around the Rocket Garden and the Early Space Flight museum. The rockets are cool. And, though they are big, they are still small enough that it is amazing to think that people have traveled into space on their brethren.
After that I got on the tour bus that drives you around the restricted access areas. The first place it stops is the LC39 viewing platform where you can see pads 39A and 39B from which the shuttles are launched. You also pass by the vehicle assembly building which is enormous.
From there you go to the Apollo launch site. They have the launch control room from the early Apollo missions preserved and do a little show with it that simulates what it would have been like to be there during a launch. It was pretty well done. They rattle the windows and change the lighting and all that. From there you go into the main part of the building where resides one of the three remaining Saturn V rockets. It’s been stored indoors and is in great shape. I have a bunch of pictures of that.
After that we left, came back to the visitor center looked at a few other things and then returned to the hotel. Obviously today has been something of a bust but it’s good to be spending some alone time. I think we’ve all been getting on each others nerves a bit.