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Kennedy Space Center
Heading for the Kennedy Space Center in October 2011 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Kennedy Space Center Pay Plaza - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Entrance (above) and Rocket Garden (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Space Center buses take you to Launch Complex 39 . . .
. . . passed the massive VAB - Vehicle Assembly Building where the Shuttle was raised and secured to the crawler which takes it out to the launch pad - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Launch Compex 39 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Space shuttle orbiter DISCOVERY on Launch Pad 39A viewed from the Launch Complex 39 Gantry - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Although due to lift off on its final flight on 3 November its 39th and final launch eventually took place on 24 February 2011from LC39A - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
One of the two crawlers (above) used to take the orbiter along the crawler way (right) to the launch pad (LC39A or LC39B0) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
LC39B (above) and the crawler way (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
NASA helicopter (note the civil registration) (above) and one of three remaining Saturn V rockets in the Appollo/Saturn V Center (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Apollo/Saturn V Center - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Apollo 14 Kitty Hawk Command Module - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Full size replica of a NASA space shuttle orbiter - EXPLORER - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Kennedy Space Center visitor center - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
The land around the KSC abounds in wildlife and this small alligator (left) and turtle (right) were seen in a pool by the Visitors' Center - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
T38 Talon Jet used by NASA - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
KSC Rocket Garden - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
KSC Rocket Garden - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Service Arm used by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Micael Collins to access the Command Module of Appollo 11 on their epic journey to the Moon - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow
Pictures from some of the many visual displays shown in the Visitor Center
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