Today we went to the Kennedy Space Center. It's huge! We started at the rocket garden, where they have real rockets that never were launched, as well as some mock- ups of life size command modules (where the astronauts sat and controlled the rockets). If you go inside the mock- ups, you actually sit as the astronauts did- on your back. They aren't very roomy.
We also got to go on a tour that took us very close to the launch pads- we were only about a mile and a half away! On that tour we also saw the
Vehicle
Assembly
Building where the rockets and space shuttles are put together and the crawler that takes the spacecraft to the launch pads. It can take up to nine hours to go from the VAB to a launch pad.
Good night from Titusville.
Bailey
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