Today we went to Kennedy Space Centre (or Center as the Americans spell
it).
To be honest we were a little disappointed by it. The highlights were
some great films about the Hubble Space Telescope, the Apollo Program and the
Apollo 11 moon landing, but we could have watched them at home.
In the morning we heard Ed Gibson speak. He was one of the first
astronauts on the Skylab, and it was inspiring to hear him speak of being an
astronaut in the early 1970’s. We then had our photo taken with him, but “no autographs
please!”
It’s great to see rockets close up and to get a real feel for the scale
of the achievement of getting people into space and then to the moon. But as a
visitor you don’t really get very close to it. The bus tour takes you to a
viewing site, but you don’t get close to a launch pad or anywhere where
anything is really happening now.
We were then able to touch a piece or real moon rock – a small piece (about
3 cm long) that had been polished to look like a granite kitchen work top. Not
exactly what we’d been expecting. And the customer service is nowhere near
Disney’s standard!
It was still a great day out, but I think we’d built our hopes up too
far.
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