FROM THE BEGINNING
The visitor complex was started in 1967, when the space program was gearing up
for the first moon landing. The first manned rocket, the Redstone, is on display, and
features Alan Shepard, America’s first man in space.
One of the first things you see when you enter is the Rocket Garden, with many
models of the rockets NASA has used over the years. You wander around in awe of
their size, especially the Saturn, which sent astronauts to the moon during the Apollo
program in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
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landing missions. You get to walk on a dusty lunar surface simulation and touch
a moon rock.
The first stop on the Kennedy
Space Center Visitor Complex
is the Rocket Garden where
all the rockets NASA has used
over the years of manned
space flight are displayed.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
CELEBRATES 60 YEARS