{"id":626,"date":"2014-09-05T02:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=626"},"modified":"2014-09-05T02:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T02:16:04","slug":"thursday-kennedy-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Thursday – Kennedy Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had originally decided against going to Kennedy Space Center but once we got here we changed our minds.<\/p>\n

So today we rented a car and drove out to Kennedy.\u00a0 A lot has changed in the 15 years since we were there last.\u00a0 Space Shuttle Atlantis was the first thing we went to see.\u00a0 They take you into a room and you stand there and watch a movie about a shuttle launch.\u00a0 It looks like you are in the shuttle during the movie and it’s kind of cool to watch.\u00a0 At the end of the movie the wall directly in front of you lifts and you see the nose of the Shuttle Atlantis sitting right there.\u00a0 They got the dramatic effect down perfectly.\u00a0 It’s quite the site to see when that wall lifts up.<\/p>\n

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Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/p><\/div>\n

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heat shield tiles by engines<\/p><\/div>\n

They have certainly tried to turn the place into another Universal theme park.\u00a0 They created a ride for a shuttle launch simulation.\u00a0 Of course we took a ride.\u00a0 It was pretty cool.\u00a0 They put you in a room of seats and buckle you in.\u00a0 When the ride starts they tilt you back until you are almost on your back.\u00a0 Dwayne thinks we were at about 45 degrees instead of a full 90 degrees.\u00a0 Then it starts shaking like it would for a lift off.\u00a0 They even have the seats move a little so if you were actually taking on g forces you would know what it felt like.\u00a0 Very cool ride, unfortunately we were not able to take any pictures.<\/p>\n

We took out bus tour and they took us out past the Vehicle Assembly Building and past the old launch pad that was used for all the shuttle launches.\u00a0 They also took us out and showed us the new mobile launch pad they are making.\u00a0 Our tour dropped us at the Apollo\/Saturn building.\u00a0 Then returned us to the main visitor facility.<\/p>\n

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Vehicle Assembly Building<\/p><\/div>\n

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Old Launch pad used for all shuttle launches<\/p><\/div>\n

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Old blast plate from shuttle launch pad<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had originally decided against going to Kennedy Space Center but once we got here we changed our minds. So today we rented a car and drove out to Kennedy.\u00a0 A lot has changed in the 15 years since we were there last.\u00a0 Space Shuttle Atlantis was the first thing we went to see.\u00a0 They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orlando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}