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We See Stars in your Future

August 21 2025

Fuel tanks prepped? Check. Preflight diagnostics? Check. Gourmet space snacks— vacuum sealed M&Ms for Foreman and cosmic mac and cheese for Ochoa? Check. We’re go for an out-of-this-world evening at Kennedy Under the Stars on August 30. In episode 1.04, join your hosts as they wonder about our place in the universe with featured astronauts, Mike Foreman and Ellen Ochoa, who will be attending the highly anticipated after-hours event.

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We See Stars in your Future

We See Stars in your Future

Fuel tanks prepped? Check. Preflight diagnostics? Check. Gourmet space snacks— vacuum sealed M&Ms for Foreman and cosmic mac and cheese for Ochoa? Check. We’re go for an out-of-this-world evening at Kennedy Under the Stars on August 30. In episode 1.04, join your hosts as they wonder about our place in the universe with featured astronauts, Mike Foreman and Ellen Ochoa, who will be attending the highly anticipated after-hours event.

August 21, 2025

Remembering Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell

Remembering Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell

August 8, 2025

Guests in NASA t-shirts and hats sit on bleachers and point upwards towards the sky in excitement.

Attraction Spotlights

Sneak Peek Inside The Gantry at LC-39 | PREMIUM LAUNCH VIEWING

August 4, 2025

A blonde woman in shorts touches a monitor attached to a circular railing that surrounds a floating Earth. On the Earth, heat data is projected.

Sneak Peek Inside The Gantry at LC-39 | EARTH INFORMATION CENTER

Take a look inside NASA's Earth Information Center at The Gantry at LC-39

July 21, 2025

One Man's Scraps is Another Man's Artifact

One Man's Scraps is Another Man's Artifact

Recorded from the very launch site that propelled the U.S. space program, join our hosts as we drive into the past, present and future of space exploration.

July 11, 2025

A billow of steam escapes from the nozzle of a hanging engine. Red light glows inside the nozzle, and the word "RG-39" is painted on in yellow across the black nozzle.

Attraction Spotlights

Sneak Peek Inside The Gantry at LC-39 | THE GANTRY OBSERVATION TOWER

Discover the namesake gantry at the heart of The Gantry at LC-39 and its four floors of excitement.

July 10, 2025

Group of astronauts

Astronauts

Employee giving an educational demonstration with dry ice

Education

Exterior of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center

Visiting Kennedy Space Center

View of the Earth in space from the Moon

NASA History