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Things to do
* Watch a rocket take off from Cape Canaveral
* See rockets and space shuttles
* Do a bus tour of the space center facilities
* Go wildlife watching at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Numerous birds, alligators, manatees.
* See rockets and space shuttles
* Do a bus tour of the space center facilities
* Go wildlife watching at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Numerous birds, alligators, manatees.
Attractions and sights
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Watch from one of several launch sites as either the Delta 4, Atlas 5 or Falcon 9 are launched into space. One of the most impressive man-made spectacles. Book tickets in advance from the Kennedy Space Center.
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Tour the Space Center facilities: drive by the space shuttle launch pad, the launch countdown clock, the Shuttle Landing Facility, the Vehicle Assembly Building and the Saturn V rocket. Experience the Apollo 8 launch and visit Firing Room 4 inside the Launch Control Center which controls all shuttle launches.
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Learn about space exploration through interactive exhibits, see the Mars exploration vehicles, the rockets, space suits and other equipment, and learn about the early history of space travel, with artefacts from the first manned space flights and the original Mercury mission control consoles.
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Relatively undisturbed wildlife habitat or saltwater estuaries, sand dunes, marshes and pine forest. See alligators and bobcats on the Black Point Wildlife Drive, watch manatees from the observation deck, go birding in the marshes, spot wildlife along the five hiking trails and go kayaking in Mosquito Lagoon.
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The Shuttle Launch Experience, designed by award winning experience designer Bob Rogers. The attraction puts guests through a simulated shuttle launch.
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The Air Force Space & Missile Museum is located at Launch Complex 26 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It includes artifacts from the early American space program and includes an outdoor rocket garden displaying rockets, missiles and space-related equipment chronicling the US Air Force.
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Zero Gravity Corporation offer parabolic flights on a modified 727, offering brief periods of weightlessness.
More attractions
More attractions and sights
* Watch the 3D Space Film at the IMAX theater
* Meet a real life astronaut
* See space shuttle Atlantis and check out the interactive exhibits and high-tech simulators
*Take the kids to the Angry Birds Space Encounter
*Fly into space as part of the Space Launch Experience
*Check out the robot scouts
* Meet a real life astronaut
* See space shuttle Atlantis and check out the interactive exhibits and high-tech simulators
*Take the kids to the Angry Birds Space Encounter
*Fly into space as part of the Space Launch Experience
*Check out the robot scouts
When to go
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Best time to go:
The most exciting time to visit is when a rocket is being launched, every few months. Public holidays bring huge crowds.
How to get there
By car from the following airports:
- Orlando, FL: 50 mi / 1 hr
- Miami, FL: 225 mi / 4 hr
- Orlando, FL: 50 mi / 1 hr
- Miami, FL: 225 mi / 4 hr