Tag: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
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Delta 2 rocket exhibit opens at Kennedy Space Center
United Launch Alliance’s final Delta 2 rocket is now displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. ULA, U.S. Space Force, NASA, and Visitor Complex officials gathered Tuesday for a grand opening ceremony. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now United Launch Alliance’s final Delta 2 rocket is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center…
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Video: Apollo 1 tribute opens at the Kennedy Space Center
On the 50th anniversary of the launch pad fire that killed the Apollo 1 astronauts, an immersive exhibit area paying tribute to the three men has opened at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Saturn V Center. Called “Ad Astra Per Aspera – A Rough Road Leads to the Stars,” the permanent exhibition carries the blessings…
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New attraction opens at Kennedy Space Center to honor legendary astronauts
A statue of astronaut Alan Shepard, America’s first person in space, stands just inside the doors to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s new Heroes & Legends attraction. Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson CAPE CANAVERAL — A building dedicated to the heroism of American astronauts, who put their lives on…
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Shuttle memorial honors crews, orbiters
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA In the first memorial of its kind, NASA and the families of the 14 men and women who lost their lives aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 have joined together to remember the astronauts with pictures, personal mementos and, in…
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U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame welcomes 2015 class
Grunsfeld, Lindsey, Rominger and Seddon. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — A proud “Hubble Hugger,” the final commander of shuttle Discovery, the first person to fly a docking to the International Space Station and one of the first U.S. women to join the astronaut ranks were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Veteran…