The Kennedy Space Center
Visitor Complex | Cocoa Beach
Visitor Complex | Cocoa Beach
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A trip to the Kennedy Space Center is a full-day experience educating groups on authentic NASA science, technology, engineering, and math.
Some major programs include:
Field Trip
- Face-to-face experience with Space Shuttle Atlantis
- Explore the 363 foot-long Saturn V moon rocket at the Apollo/Saturn V Center
- Tour NASA’s spaceflight operations
- Interact with immersive simulators and exhibits
- A guided bus tour
- Sit-down conversation with an Astronaut
Astronaut Training Experience
- Participate in a mission simulation that includes launching, landing and walking on Mars.
- Perform a spacewalk through immersive microgravity simulation technology.
- Participate in NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as a member of the control team or the Orion capsule crew.
Mars Base 1
- Students travel to the Red Planet for a day to live and work on Mars Base 1.
- Rookie Astronaut teams travel to Mars using the Mars Transporter Vehicle.
- Learn to work through the challenges of living on the Martian Surface: grow and harvest plants in the Botany Lab, manage the Base Operations Center, and collect and analyze data that will be sent to real NASA scientists.
From here, groups can travel to Cocoa Beach, FL and can relax and visit the Florida Surf Museum at their leisure.