A slice of moon rock that you can touch at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. February, 2006
Apollo / Saturn V Center at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. February, 2006
Liftoff of the STS-60 shuttle in 1994 from Pad 39A.
Since 1968, NASA has been using the John F. Kennedy Space Center for all human flights into space. The facility is 219 square miles (570 sq km) on Merritt Island, FL. Although the program at the Kennedy Space Center has been cut back because of the retirement of the space shuttle program, there are still more than 13,000 people working at the center as of 2011.
The Kennedy Space Center is a major tourist attraction that provides bus tours throughout the facility including the Apollo / Saturn V museum containing items from the Apollo moon landing (e.g., moon rock, space capsules, Saturn V rocket, etc.). There are also immense IMAX theaters which provide space exploration films and flight simulators at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Jack Crane
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for the US government's civilian space program from three pads at the adjoining Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Its Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is the fourth-largest structure in the world by volume and was the largest when completed in 1965