Kennedy Space Center Tours

	Shuttle Launch Experience! Kennedy Space Center's newest attraction Simulates Shuttle Launch at 17,500 MPH
It's 3...2...1...launch as guests take their own vibrant journey of the Space Shuttle's rush to Earth's orbit. On Shuttle Launch Experience, Kennedy Space Center's newest attraction, visitors strap in to the sights, sounds and sensations of launching into space...fully vertical!
	The journey begins as passengers enter the Shuttle Launch Simulation Facility, an looming six-story structure architecturally consistent with Space Shuttle facilities at Kennedy Space Center. As crew members ascend along the gantry, veteran shuttle astronauts share testimonials, setting the stage for the experience to come.
Entering the heart of Space Shuttle operations for the pre-launch briefing, crew members are guided by veteran Space Shuttle Commander Charlie Bolden as he takes them step-by-step through the launch sequence. Brilliant video screens spring to life on shuttle-like robotic arms. Anxious moments arise as dramatic atmospheric sound and lighting effects dramatize the moments before launch.

Kennedy Space Center, is a must see experience!

Your Orlando vacation is not complete without a trip to Kennedy Space Center. Just 45 minutes from popular Orlando attractions and theme parks is NASA's launch headquarters – the only place on Earth where you can tour launch areas, meet an Astronaut, see giant rockets, train in spaceflight simulators, and even view a launch.

Experience more on your vacation to Orlando with a daytrip to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where the sky isn't the limit - it's just the beginning.

John F. Kennedy Space Center is America's gateway to the universe and NASA's launch headquarters. Just 45 minutes from Orlando, it is a working government facility where over 10,000 men and women daily push the limits of scientific knowledge.

But it's also a remarkable place for visitors to explore and make their own discoveries. Celebrating the past, present and future of mankind's accomplishments, Kennedy Space Center is part of any great Florida vacation.

	Astronaut Memorial Dedicated in May 1991, the Space Mirror is a high-tech national monument to our fallen heroes. Visited by more than 20 million people, the Space Mirror is a project of The Astronaut Memorial Foundation and was paid for by Florida residents who purchased special Challenger mission automobile license plates.
Mad Mission to Mars Using the comedic antics of Professor Pruvitt, and his wacky colleagues, Kelvin and WD-4D, "Mad Mission to Mars 2025" transforms the audience into "astronaut trainees." Live action, hands-on fun, stereoscopic 3-D computer animation and spectacular theatrical effects-including artificial winds and splatter cannons-combine to take guests on a unique and educational voyage through the cosmos.
	Imax Space Films In two giant IMAX® theaters, the dream of spaceflight comes alive with a wall of sound, five-story screens and realistic 3D special effects. Dramatic footage shot by NASA Astronauts during actual missions will make you feel like you're floating right alongside them.
Rocket Garden Travel back in time and history in the newly re-developed Rocket Garden. Dramatic new lighting brings these historic rockets back to life with an adventurous and patriotic scheme, highlighting each fuselage with brilliant white uplight, bathing the site with techno-blue accents and heating the engines with flickering red-orange light. This lighting restores these rockets to historic brilliance, and presents them in dramatic context that captures their "blast-off" glory. Here visitors can experience the very same Redstone, Atlas and Titan rockets that first put NASA Astronauts in space. Climb-aboard Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules give the young - and the young at heart - an idea of the cramped quarters America's Astronaut pioneers endured. Free tours of the Rocket Garden are given at 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily.
	Space Shuttle Plaza In the Space Shuttle Plaza, guests are met with a jaw-dropping, full-sized NASA Space Shuttle replica - Explorer. Here you can experience how Astronauts live and work aboard real spacecraft. Sharing the plaza with Explorer are the other components needed to launch the orbiter: a huge external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. Next to Explorer is the Launch Status Center, where visitors receive live briefings on NASA launch and space flight activity. Daily briefings at 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 5:00 p.m. (Schedule subject to change)

International Space Station Center Now it's your turn to climb aboard the International Space Station on the NASA Up Close Tour. The International Space Station is "the dream that seemed impossible" - the most ambitious space program since the Apollo moon landings. This fascinating facility gives you an up-close glimpse inside the actual facility where NASA is preparing the real components of the International Space Station - the largest, most complex structure ever to be placed into orbit

Enter the full-scale mock-up of the Habitation Module and see the facilities that space station crew members will use for living, sleeping and working quarters. An elevated observation room overlooks the actual processing bay where each space station component is checked out, processed and readied for its trip into orbit. The International Space Station Center is only available on the NASA Up Close tour.

Escape the Ordinary!
Your Admission Badge provides admission to all the Visitor Complex movies, exhibits and shows, including as many IMAX films you can see in a day. Also included is the Kennedy Space Center tour into restricted areas, including the Apollo/Saturn V Center.

Please Note

We book tours to the Kennedy Space Center with regular admission, this is not a Launch Ticket, that is a separate ticket event and must purchase with one of our shuttle launch tours.

Tour Information

Length: APPROX 12 hours
Departure Dates: See Below
Pick up Locations:
Departs pick up locations between 7:30am - 8:30am.
Hotel Pickups:
Pick up time between 7:30am - 8:30am.
Advise: Please call upon arrival in Orlando/Kissimmee to reconfirm pick-up time/location.
Return Details: Tour returns to the original departure point
Itinerary:
8:45am - Departure from Orlando
10:00am - Arrival at Kennedy Space Center
5:30pm - Departure from Kennedy Space Center
6:30pm - Return to pickup lo actions/Hotels
Inclusions:
- Round-trip transportation from your hotel.
- Fully narrated and guided tour of the Visitor Complex by a GatorTours' tour guide.
- Kennedy Space Center NASA Bus Tour with stops at the Observation
Gantry to see the launch pads, and the Saturn V exhibit area.
- Unlimited access to the Visitors Complex exhibits such as IMAX
Space Films, Rocket Garden, Robot Scouts, Universe Theater, Astronaut
Encounter, Exploration in the New Millennium, Early Space Exploration,
Nature and Technology.
- Touch a piece of Mars at the Exploration in the New Millennium.
- A chance to see the actual space shuttle and launch pads from
the L39 Observation Gantry See a Space Shuttle model on a scale of 1:1
Pricing Policy: Child prices are applicable for children aged 3 - 11 years.