February 2020 - Kennedy Space Center

The Kennedy Space Center has great rockets and launch pads that look so familiar from seeing them in movies and documentaries. We tried to see a rocket launch but no luck (but a lot of cost in trying :-/).

The Kennedy Space Center	Space shuttle boosters - cool!
The Kennedy Space Center	Space shuttle boosters - cool!
The incredibly large vehicle assembly building, one of the largest buildings in the world	One of the launchpads, with the NASA+ESA Solar Orbiter on the launchpad. It launched that night.	The SpaceX pad
The incredibly large vehicle assembly building, one of the largest buildings in the world	One of the launchpads, with the NASA+ESA Solar Orbiter on the launchpad. It launched that night.	The SpaceX pad
The SpaceX tower	Launch pads all down the coast	Another of the launch pads
The SpaceX tower	Launch pads all down the coast	Another of the launch pads
The road from the assembly building out to the launch pads. You can still see the tracks in the gravel from when they hauled out the solar orbiter rocket.	The actual control panels from the Apollo missions	The stunningly long Saturn V rocket
The road from the assembly building out to the launch pads. You can still see the tracks in the gravel from when they hauled out the solar orbiter rocket.	The actual control panels from the Apollo missions	The stunningly long Saturn V rocket
		The totally awesome Apollo 11 mission insignia
		The totally awesome Apollo 11 mission insignia
The second stage rocket	The charred Apollo 14 capsule	The solar orbiter rocket on the pad, as seen from the Apollo center
The second stage rocket	The charred Apollo 14 capsule	The solar orbiter rocket on the pad, as seen from the Apollo center
A copy of the Hubble space telescope		Atlantis space shuttle
A copy of the Hubble space telescope		Atlantis space shuttle
	On the wing
	On the wing
	The bottom	The control panels for the Mercury missions (The Right Stuff)
	The bottom	The control panels for the Mercury missions (The Right Stuff)
A Mercury mission rocket and capsule. Tiny compared to the Saturn V.	The precursor to the Saturn V	A European starling hanging out by the Apollo center
A Mercury mission rocket and capsule. Tiny compared to the Saturn V.	The precursor to the Saturn V	A European starling hanging out by the Apollo center
A loggerhead shrike	Cocoa Beach on Cape Canaveral - nothing to get excited about	You can see the launch sites off in the distance up the coast
A loggerhead shrike	Cocoa Beach on Cape Canaveral - nothing to get excited about	You can see the launch sites off in the distance up the coast
A palm warbler (western variety)
A palm warbler (western variety)