Day 2, 27/7 (Wednesday)
Today was Space Day! We had a bus tour to the Kennedy Space Centre booked today, which left from a restaurant called Senor Frogs at 8:30. We got an Uber there just in time! The bus trip took about an hour, then we had admission already paid for and until 5:30pm to explore!
We started at the Gateway building, with the rockets (4 of which had actually been into space!) and the adventure videos. There weroices and we picked the Red Explorer one - it went to Mars! We actually used the Observation Deck though to watch it, as it was the same video but without the motion sickness inducing movement. The next building we headed over to was the Journey to Mars. There we explored that boards and listened to a talk abour Mars being the next planet to explore. Then we headed to the Universe Taste to meet an astronaut! On this day it was Steve Smith. He talked about what it was like to do space walks and how it changes your perspective on life.
After the talk we jumped into the bus to the other building, the Apollo/Saturn V Centre. Once we got there there were somw shows on the way in about the history of the Saturn ships and the Apollo missions before we entered. There was a whole ship having from the ceiling! It was very impressive. We had hot dogs for lunch next to the ticket before heading into the memorial room for Apollo 1 - where all 3 astronauts died. It was a very interesting room, as I didn't know anything about the mission. It was such a tragedy. We then wanted a break - a common theme of our Florida trip was that the aircon was too aggressive but outdoor was so humid! So we wanted to go outside for a little bit to warm up. We headed outside to see over from the viewing area to the launch pads. You couldn't see any rockets on then when we were there but the structures to hooks then in place were all there. Once we were sufficiently warmed up we headed back to the bus and the main centre.
Back there we checked out the Atlantis building. It had the real shuttle that had done 33 missions (wow!) and details about each one and how the shuttle returned and left again. Then we decided it was time to go to the gift shop finally! I spent a long time deliberating but got a tee and shot glass for the Husband, and a cropped jumper and pin for myself. We were almost out of tune and wanted somewhere nice and chill, so headed to the Nature + Technology building. It talked about the natural area and biodiversity around NASA (which they share the management with the relevant Florida authorities) and hour they look out for both the plants and animals around. It was interesting and they obviously take a lot of care.
Our last stop was the Heroes + Legends building. I appreciated that it didn't just focus on the astronauts as heroes, but otter people as heroes and the heroes of the astronauts. Part of the videos and multimedia aksk included 'flying' which had a manufactured breeze which we liked!
Then it was time to head back to the bus. We had saved a podcast that Bro and I both listen to which we shared on the way back to Senor Frogs. On the way we also picked a place to eat. It turned out that Senor Frogs is in a good/club are so we find a cool looking nearby place called Dave & Busters for food. It was an arcade and food place together, and we enjoyed the vibe although we didn't play any games ourselves. U had a southern cobb salad (which was delicious but HUGE!) and a really yummy black cherry cocktail. Then it was back to the hotel for bedtime.
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