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Mid-Afternoon we depart to South Beach for you to take in your free time and relax beachside, take in some dinner, and stroll around the Art Deco area of South Beach - the sizzling hot spot heart of Miami! This bustling mall is right on the waterfront, whether you choose to hunt for bargains, look at the boats, or visit the Hard Rock Café Miami, it is all in the area. This tour takes you to one of the most upbeat cities on the East Coast, otherwise known as Miami.Įxperience the Bayside marketplace shopping mall and enjoy the exciting atmosphere. This is an early morning tour so you can get down to Miami with time to explore! On route to Miami enjoy a packed breakfast bag. This is operated by Gray Line Orlando and includes transportation. The alternate route includes seeing KSC Headquarters and industrial area, the historic Shuttle Landing Facility and a stop at the Vehicle Assembly Building.)Īll in all this day will give you insight into the past, present, and future of space flight. (Now that rocket launches are once again taking place from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, safety protocols require an alternate tour bus route during days leading up to a launch. See icons of spaceflight operations like the Vehicle Assembly Building, historic Launch Complex 39 and disembark for a view of the launch pads used by NASA’s commercial partners such as SpaceX and ULA. The Explore Tour takes visitors beyond the Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour, making several stops to capture once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunities. Ride along with a space expert guide on a tour of America’s Spaceport. Guests can conduct a virtual EVA, or extravehicular activity practice docking to the ISS extract cargo from the payload bay create sonic booms and glide to a landing on the Re-entry Slide experience the sensation of floating in space explore a high-fidelity replica of the ISS virtually mate Atlantis to the external tank kick up a virtual chemical reaction to launch the shuttle get an “X-ray view” of Atlantis’ interior experience an orbital sunrise strap in to the sights, sounds and sensations of a shuttle launch take the helm at the shuttle cockpit, and much more.Īfter Space Shuttle Atlantis, you can explore one of the many other exhibits such as Heroes and Legends, sit for a minute in the IMAX theatre to catch one of the 2 films showing, visit the Saturn V Rocket or much more. More than 60 interactive, touch-screen experiences and high-tech simulators invite guests to “be the astronaut,” bringing to life the people, passion and patriotism behind NASA’s 30-year Space Shuttle Program as well as the complexity of the engineering marvel that launched the Hubble Space Telescope and built the International Space Station (ISS). Upon arrival at the main visitor center complex, visit the world’s most comprehensive attraction devoted to the space shuttle, Atlantis brings visitors nose-to-nose with the priceless spacecraft as only astronauts have seen it before – with payload bay doors open as if it were floating in space.
