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27th July - Kennedy Space Centre
I organised a coach to take us all to Kennedy Space Centre for the day. Including 'Lunch with an Astronaut'
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| The rocket boosters and fual tank used in the Space Shuttle at the entrance to the Kennedy Space Centre |
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| On the Kennedy Space Centre tour. View of the launch pads |
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| The iconic Vehicle Assembly Building |
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| The 'Crawler' that transports the rockets the 3 miles from the Assembly Building to the launch pad. Takes 8 hours. |
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| The SpaceX launch pad - Launchpad 39 where the Apollo missions took off for the moon in the 1960s/70s |
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| A photo from the web of a Falcon9 rocket on Launchpad 39 |
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| Apollo Control Room |
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| Pictures from Neil's GoPro camera of the Saturn rocket that launched the Apollo missions to the moon |
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| Euan |
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| Euan the astronaut |
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| Becci the astronaut and the Space Shuttle Experience |
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| Richard the astronaut |
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| Lunch with Ed Gibson - An astronaut who spent over 100 days on SkyLab in the 1970s. Ed is now 80... |
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| Group photos with Ed Gibson |