My Trip to Kennedy Space Center by Theo

In August 2018 me, Dad, Sarah and her family went to Orlando Florida for a two week holiday. While we were there, one day me and my Dad went to the Kennedy Space Center. 



When we first tried to get in we went to the wrong security entrance and got the correct directions to the right entrance. The first thing we did was we went on a bus tour of the center and we saw where rockets take off from, they are called launch pads. 



While we were on the tour we saw the crawlers what takes the rockets from the main NASA building to the launch pads. The tracks they went down were as wide as an eight lane motorway. The crawler travels at 1mph with the rocket onboard and 2mph with no rocket onboard. It takes four hours to get from the main NASA building to the launch pads. 



After the bus tour we got off and went round to look at the Apollo space missions. We saw and had lunch with a replica Apollo space rocket, it was very BIG!! After lunch we had a look round to see what  is involved in a launch/mission, from the control room to where the astronauts sit. 



While we were there we got to look in to see what the International Space Station looks like inside and what it is like to take off in a rocket simulator what we had to ourselves. My favourite part was going on the simulator and I enjoyed the day learning about rocket missions.



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