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Florida Trip-Kennedy Space Center

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Florida Trip-Kennedy Space Center

In 2010 I was enrolled into the aerospace engineering program at Penn State. Part of the reason was that I wanted to work for NASA, to say it more ambitiously, work as an astronaut. After a quick assessment of my reality, I exited the aerospace engineering program after a year and studied something with more job opportunities for me. More than a decade later, I came to NASA Kennedy Space Center from where the astronauts are launched into space. But I didn’t go to space, instead of heading to the launch pad, I headed to the visitor center.

Two white solid rocket boosters and an orange fuel tank for space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle Atlantis last flew in 2011. The white boosters were reusable but the orange fuel tank was not. It burned up in the atmosphere during its descend after the shuttle reached orbit.
The shuttle Atlantis itself. A multipurpose reusable spacecraft that could go into space as a rocket, be a home for the astronauts while in space, and come back to earth and land like an airplane.
Here seen Neil sitting in the shuttle cockpit model. The countless switches in the cockpit each with a specific function could’ve been a life and death issue if pressed wrong but here I turned plenty of them on and off without any incident.
A future Mars rover that could one day be driven on the red planet.
Five engines of Saturn V rocket that carried Neil Armstrong and others to the Moon.
The entirety of Saturn V rocket. This rocket is so big that couldn’t come into one shot.
A model of the Eagle that landed on the Moon. The stairs seen here were used by Neil Armstrong to exit the lunar lander and step onto the Moon’s surface.
Some of the rockets at the rocket garden.
Behind Neil is the Saturn I rocket that NASA first built to go to the Moon.
Saturn I rocket close-up view.

There were so much more to see at the Kennedy Space Center but we only had one day.

Our next stop SeaWorld with 🐬🐋🐧.

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