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72 Results for Category Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Front view of the Atlantis slide

The slide in Space Shuttle Atlantis is a guest favorite. Learn why it is more than just a speedy thrill!


Mom taking photo of excited son in the Rocket Garden

Be sure to add a field trip to Mars, or rather Mars Base 1, this school year at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex! Do your students have what it takes to keep the Base operating on the Red Planet?


Student coding a robot to follow directional functions

Engage your future space explorers with these STEAM-based activities at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this summer.


The Titan II rocket for the Gemini program

Astronaut Tom Jones remembers the first rocket he ever saw, the Titan II. Read how this Gemini-era rocket inspired him to seek a career as an astronaut, and how you can see one of these rockets up close at the visitor complex.


ATX Launch Mission

Kennedy Space Center is world-famous for launching rockets and sending humans into space. Now you can be a part of a simulation of launching and being launched in a rocket as part of the all new Astronaut Training Experience®.