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Things to do

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* 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.

Attractions and sights

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  • Rocket launch at Cape Canaveral

    Rocket launch at Cape Canaveral
    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.
    Rocket launch at Cape Canaveral
  • Tours of the Space Center

    Tours of the Space Center
    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.
    Tours of the Space Center
  • Rockets and space equipment

    Rockets and space equipment
    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.
    Rockets and space equipment
  • Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

    Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
    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.
    Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
  • The Shuttle Launch Experience

    The Shuttle Launch Experience
    The Shuttle Launch Experience, designed by award winning experience designer Bob Rogers. The attraction puts guests through a simulated shuttle launch.
    The Shuttle Launch Experience
  • Air Force Space and Missile Museum

    Air Force Space and Missile Museum
    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.
    Air Force Space and Missile Museum
  • Zero Gravity

    Zero Gravity
    Zero Gravity Corporation offer parabolic flights on a modified 727, offering brief periods of weightlessness.
    Zero Gravity
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    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

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    When to go

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    The most exciting time to visit is when a rocket is being launched, every few months. Public holidays bring huge crowds.

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    How to get there

    By car from the following airports:
    - Orlando, FL: 50 mi / 1 hr
    - Miami, FL: 225 mi / 4 hr

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