Kennedy Space Center Day Tour with Airboat Ride from Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 10 hours
Travel through the swamp and space on this day trip from Orlando. Your day will start with a visit the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where you can meet an astronaut, see the Space Shuttle Atlantis and learn all about space travel. In the afternoon you'll witness the beauty of the Florida swamps via an airboat ride along the St. Johns River.
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Travel through the swamp and space on this day trip from Orlando. Your day will start with a visit the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where you can meet an astronaut, see the Space Shuttle Atlantis and learn all about space travel. In the afternoon you'll witness the beauty of the Florida swamps via an airboat ride along the St. Johns River.After hotel pickup you'll arrive at the Kennedy Space Center where you'll have the opportunity to have a brief meet and greet with an astronaut! Following your exclusive welcome, you'll have time to explore the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where you will learn everything about space travel.
On the narrated NASA bus tour, you will find yourself standing inside the launch control room and looking at an actual Saturn V rocket - the largest rocket ever to fly! You can also take pictures of the shuttle launch pads and with a little luck, you might even see a space shuttle there!
At the Shuttle Launch Experience, this simulator ride replicates the sights, sounds and feelings of a shuttle launch. You'll go on an incredible journey through space, orbiting Earth aboard a space shuttle. This one-of-a-kind, motion-based simulator is the only realistic simulation of a launch ever created. The 5-minute experience sequence culminates with a breath-taking view of the Earth.
After the bus tour, sit back and enjoy an IMAX movie.
While at the visitor center complex, you'll be immersed all things relating to the Space Shuttle Atlantis. This comprehensive attraction devoted to the space shuttle brings you face-to-face with the priceless Atlantis spacecraft as only astronauts have seen it before – with payload bay doors open as if it were floating in space. There are more than 60 interactive, touch-screen experiences and high-tech simulators allowing you to “be the astronaut,” bringing to life the people, passion and patriotism behind NASA’s 30-year Space Shuttle Program.
Following your time at Kennedy Space Center, you'll experience the swamps of Florida on a 30-minute airboat ride. See exotic plants, flowers and wildlife. You'll travel at high speeds, gliding across the waters of the St. Johns River.
On the narrated NASA bus tour, you will find yourself standing inside the launch control room and looking at an actual Saturn V rocket - the largest rocket ever to fly! You can also take pictures of the shuttle launch pads and with a little luck, you might even see a space shuttle there!
At the Shuttle Launch Experience, this simulator ride replicates the sights, sounds and feelings of a shuttle launch. You'll go on an incredible journey through space, orbiting Earth aboard a space shuttle. This one-of-a-kind, motion-based simulator is the only realistic simulation of a launch ever created. The 5-minute experience sequence culminates with a breath-taking view of the Earth.
After the bus tour, sit back and enjoy an IMAX movie.
While at the visitor center complex, you'll be immersed all things relating to the Space Shuttle Atlantis. This comprehensive attraction devoted to the space shuttle brings you face-to-face with the priceless Atlantis spacecraft as only astronauts have seen it before – with payload bay doors open as if it were floating in space. There are more than 60 interactive, touch-screen experiences and high-tech simulators allowing you to “be the astronaut,” bringing to life the people, passion and patriotism behind NASA’s 30-year Space Shuttle Program.
Following your time at Kennedy Space Center, you'll experience the swamps of Florida on a 30-minute airboat ride. See exotic plants, flowers and wildlife. You'll travel at high speeds, gliding across the waters of the St. Johns River.
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