New Blog: Kennedy Space Center offers several up close tours

[safetymom]

http://www.disunplugged.com/2010/03/12/kennedy-space-center-offers-several-up-close-tours/

 

[jcb]

Kathy,

Thank you so much for the blog. The photos of Launch Complex 34 were very moving.

 

[WaltD4Me]

Great blog Kathy! I always encourage people to make a trip to Kennedy Space Center if they can. The first time we went to Disney....1980, we also went to Kennedy Space Center and were lucky enough to see a rocket take off, I never forgot it and have been interested in space ever since. I met John Glenn 12 years later and it was like meeting a movie star to me! LOL! Fast forward to February 2008 on trip with my brother and his family I said we HAD take my nephew to Kennedy...we were lucky enough to see a shuttle launch. He still talks about it. KSC is an awesome place and just about the only place that I don't mind giving up a day at Disney for.

 

[mikelan6]

That's an amazing tour, Kathy. Thanks for sharing this with us. Maybe we should plan a day at the KSC the day before PC 2.0!?!?!

 

[k5jm]

Fantastic, Kathy. I grew up next to JSC and had many astronaughts and flight controllers that lived around me. It was not uncommon for me to see Jack Lousma or Gene Kranz out mowing their yards. Or have Milt Windler (flight Controller for Apollo missions) take us camping every summer. It was not until much later that I realized that these "everyday" guys did something special and incredible. I would tell everyone to read Kathy's blog and then go experience KSC and JSC. There is nothing like standing at the base of a Saturn V rocket and realizing we sent this metal contraption into space and then on to the moon.

FWIW - JSC's Visitor center was designed by Disney Imagineering (and they all point with 2 fingers).

 

[safetymom]

We are going to Breakfast with the Astronauts in April at KSC. It is the crew of Apollo 13. I got to meet John Glenn several years ago, and we covered a press conference last year with a number of the Apollo astronauts. I can't get enough of it.

 

[k5jm]

We are going to Breakfast with the Astronauts in April at KSC. It is the crew of Apollo 13. I got to meet John Glenn several years ago, and we covered a press conference last year with a number of the Apollo astronauts. I can't get enough of it.

That will be fantastic. I am sure you will enjoy it!!

My brother talking to "Uncle Milton" at my Grandmother's funeral. It is funny that he still looks like an Apollo flight Controller.

"Uncle Milton" working the issues on Skylab

 

[safetymom]

That is so cool. To me when I go to KSC sometimes I have to pinch myself that I am there. I can't tell you how much I wanted to visit KSC when I lived up North but never ever figured I would live close enough to visit when I wanted to.

The first time I visited I cried. My kids thought I was crazy. My middle daughter gets it now why I was so excited to be there.

It's just so sad that the manned launches are coming to an end. I feel so bad for all the workers that are going to lose their jobs.

 

[disneyholic family]

That's an amazing tour, Kathy. Thanks for sharing this with us. Maybe we should plan a day at the KSC the day before PC 2.0!?!?!

i'm in

That is so cool. To me when I go to KSC sometimes I have to pinch myself that I am there. I can't tell you how much I wanted to visit KSC when I lived up North but never ever figured I would live close enough to visit when I wanted to.

The first time I visited I cried. My kids thought I was crazy. My middle daughter gets it now why I was so excited to be there.

It's just so sad that the manned launches are coming to an end. I feel so bad for all the workers that are going to lose their jobs.

Kathy, i can't get enough of all things space program either..
you're so lucky to live so close by..

i must have watched when we left earth about a zillion times...
(and all the other series as well)...
i never wanted to be an astronaut, but i did dream of working at NASA....
alas, i didn't go into engineering..
but DS did...maybe he'll make it there one day...(it's one of his two dreams - NASA or imagineering)..

 

[safetymom]

I watched all those shows too. I wanted to work at NASA too. I know I wouldn't be an astronaut but maybe a staff photographer. I wish your son luck in whatever career he ends up in.