A week later, I came to the Kennedy Space Center, which was affiliated with NASA. If you want to say that Disney is everywhere, there is only one Kennedy!

560 square kilometers, surrounded by wildlife reserves, surrounded by woods, green spaces, oceans, swamps, birds, and crocodiles.

The famous NASA is headquartered in Washington and has many branches, Houston has a R&D center and California has a military center. The most well-known of them is here.

The most important spacecraft test, preparation and launch site. It undertakes all manned space launch missions, the Apollo Project, Mercury Project, and Gemini Project are implemented here, known as the Space Shuttle Home.

It was originally just a park specially set up to facilitate inspections by astronauts and their families. Now it is open to the public as a comprehensive visitor center. I heard that many local tyrants like to go to heaven and spend tens of millions of years of training just to leave the earth?

As soon as you enter the center gate, you will see a rocket garden in front of you. Eight real rockets are rising from the ground, towering into the clouds. The tour guide introduces the Redstone series.

The Atlas series and the Titan series that sent Americans into space for the first time.

Entering the Mars Tour Experience Hall, there are various information, devices, images, and knowledge questions and answers about Mars exploration. Even as a non-professional person, most of them don’t understand it very well, but Johnson still finds it interesting and has the illusion of being unaware of it.

A popular science video about exploring the moon and Mars was played, and a dedicated person presided over the explanation. Most of the surrounding students were sitting on the ground, listening to it with all their attention, their mouths wide open, and they raised their hands from time to time to interact with the staff. Maybe several astronauts would be able to be released in the future.

Meet the astronaut conference hall and listen to a speech provided by real astronauts. The person who gave the speech that day was Tom Jones, who was 61 and 35 years old, was selected as an astronaut. Before retirement, he flew into space four times.

The Americans are very humorous and have a passionate introduction to how to become an astronaut and their life in a space station. It is probably how to use the toilet in space and how to drink coke in the cabin...

Finally, there was an interactive Q&A. The children raised their hands high, and questions came one after another. Some little aerospace fans seriously discussed professional issues with the other party that everyone could not understand. The adults present looked at each other in awe, which was so embarrassing!

After lunch, I took a bus to continue visiting and headed to the real rocket launch pad and the aerospace project operation area. The senior tour guide explained NASA's landmarks throughout the journey, from technology to NASA gossip and political stories, which made everyone stunned.

39A launch pad, where the Apollo moon-land space shuttle was launched. Now 39A has been leased to SpaceX...

That space shuttle delivery platform, this guy is definitely a super behemoth, responsible for sending the assembled space shuttle from the assembly building to the launch pad. A crawler weighs two tons, and it appeared in Transformers 3...

Don't underestimate the flame shields when these spacecraft were launched. The burning marks on them record their mission and glory...

Get off the car and first enter a room to restore the launch scene of Apollo 11, including the real scene of the control center, TV broadcasts and live images. When a 30-second countdown and a nervous face appeared on the screen, the hearts of the people present would be pounding.

When the rockets on the screen took off, the windows were red, the seats were shaken, and there were roars that lasted for several minutes, as if I were like the people on the screen, witnessing that great moment.

The biggest highlight is the rebuilt Apollo Saturn 5, including the rocket connection, the lunar module, the launch escape tower, the command service module, the return capsule, etc., which will take more than an hour from beginning to end.

A total of 13 were launched, and 9 were sent to the manned Apollo on the lunar orbit. The last launch sent the Sky Laboratory space station into low-Earth orbit, and is known as the strongest launch vehicle system in history.

The old horse is in the stable and has ambitions for thousands of miles. Only by standing below Saturn 5 and being shrouded in huge shadows can you truly experience the heaviness and shock.

Starting from the Atlantis Theatre, people were gathered in front of a giant 3D screen. The lights gradually dimmed, and the video began in the grass beside the Cocoa Coast. As the camera moved, people's eyes passed through the grass, and the whole picture of the Kennedy Space Center launch frame suddenly appeared in front of them.

The camera gets closer and closer, the rocket starts, ignites, and takes off, and the roar vibrates the earth. As the Hollywood-style brilliant soundtrack comes to an end, the Atlantis appears on the screen. When you look closely, it turns out that it is not a screen projection, but a real body passing through the screen!

Johnson was stunning. This prelude effect exploded and the whole audience was definitely given a full mark. Then the screen rose and approached the shuttle. The real Atlantis was tilted at 45°, the hatch on the top opened, and the robot arm was extended to maintain its shape when it was flying in space.

The space shuttle was mainly used to transport materials to outer space. Atlantis was the last retired space shuttle. It was built and was built for the purpose of saving costs and used multiple times, and it also played a huge role in the construction of the International Space Station later.

However, a launch costs $1.5 billion, and the tragedy of the crash of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles has made people wonder whether the shuttle is in line with the original intention of construction.

It has performed 17 flights in total and was retired in 2011, and also announced the end of the space shuttle era. Now manned spacecraft is mainly developing a new generation of spacecraft Orion to meet the needs of manned flights to Mars.

Fire, $1.5 billion?

Johnson Chan secretly smacked his tongue, scientific research is indeed the most awesome gold-swalking beast. As long as it is involved in high technology, money will immediately become a number, and only the country can afford it.

Change into the space suit, walk into the experience cabin, and experience the entire process of launch, from takeoff, to space flight, to landing, vision, hearing, and touch.

Especially the loud noise and vibration of takeoff and landing were very shocking. When the cabin hood opened and looked up to see the earth, it felt so wonderful...

No wonder the rich all want to leave the earth.

The strongest experience before leaving was marveling at American patriotism education. It cannot be simply said that the United States only advocates individual heroism, and the honor of the collective and the country is a huge ignition point. All propaganda is not deliberately or rigid, and even the irrelevant self can be infected. No wonder Hollywood is so awesome.

Even if space is expensive and expensive, humans will not stop. Perhaps there is a part of our nature that is unwilling to be trapped on land. Space may be like sailing hundreds of years ago. At that time, the whole country could only send one or two ocean-going ships. Now ocean-going shipping has become commercialized, and money can be achieved.

Recalling the Falcon Rockets that were recycled a few weeks ago, it is already the result of commercial company Spacex. Even NASA has now devoted its power to manned flights to Mars. As long as people have the belief that they are unwilling to be bound by land, they will definitely go further and further in space in the future.
Chapter completed!