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The Tour of Kennedy Space Center would not be complete without
visiting the Apollo Center where one finds a complete- full-scale replica of the giant Saturn-5 Rocket, including
the Command Module (CM).
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The Apollo-Saturn Exhibition Center . . .
In the era of the Apollo Moon Program, the Saturn-5 rocket vehicle- perhaps
the most complex and sophisticated machine ever built by man, was what it took to fly the first men to the moon. I
was just barely in the high school when the Apollo Program commenced in the late1960s and never thought that one day I'd be visiting
the very place where it all happened- and see for myself the actual, enormously large Saturn-5 rocket- now lying in state
as mute witness to human achievement in space science and engineering.
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| Base end of a Saturn-V rocket with the 5 main boosters are shown |
The Service and Command Module
(top) and the 5 giant boosters (right) of the Saturn-5 F-1 engines, each of which can deliver
some 1.5-million pounds of thrust.
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At the Kennedy Space Center- Apollo-Saturn Center, one item
of interest was the moon suit that is also being exhibited- the kind of suit that the 12 men wore while walking on the Moon.
Another item was the Moon Rover- or the"Moon Buggy", that the
astronauts used to drive around during the lunar exploration
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But I think the most interesting presentation at the Apollo-Saturn
Center was the 'lights and sounds' show inside the Apollo Launch Control Room- the very same place which played the important
and vital operations of the Apollo moon missions. . . now recreated to re-live the glory days of the Apollo Program. . .
. . . And for our last and final stop-over, we left the Apollo-Saturn
Center and the Tour Bus headed directly to the Space Shuttle Plaza, where the highlights of the entire
tour was to take place- primarily at the Shuttle Launch Simulation Facility for the "Vertifical Lift-Off"
Experience . . .
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