Today tuesday I went with my family to Kennedy Space Center. It was so fun but when we got there there was no tours left for the day so we did not get a tour. We had to do our own tour. I learned a lot there, that the challenger exploted in 73 seconds of the take off. There was a teacher in the challenger at the time it exploted. She was in a contest and she one it. When the astronots got in to the challenger the first time the door would not close so they had to get out and the people that fix it had to fix it for another day. Then the next day the challenger was ready for take off and in the 73 seconds of take off it exploted.
The space center built 6 shuttles. I went into a shuttle and it felt like we were moving up into the sky that was really fun.
Kristy macalan won a contest for teachers, called taechrs in space. She was one of the people on Space Shuttle Challenger. The second place winner oif the contest now wanted to fufill her dream of in beong space, but NASA stopped the program after the crash. It took Barbra Smith 22 years to train and become an offical astronaut.
I learned about both take off sites 39a and 39b. The challenger was the first space ship to go on to 39b.
3 miles is the closest spot that you can get to a launch. The families have there speicel place to to watch the launch from the top of the very tall repear center.
I saw the shuttle transporter and it was really big flatbed. It moves 1MPH and uses 150 gallons of fuel per mile. The shuttle is moved 8 miles to the take off site.
The shuttle is stored in a huge tower building that it is worked on.
We saw and went into Space Shulte Expolorer . It was not that big inside.
We also went on a launch simulator and it felt a real launch.
Most of the work is done for mouth of a head of time.
Kennedy Space Center is a nature area. We saw a raccoon, a lot of armadinols , birds, and aligaters.
I had a lot of fun and learned lot about NASA and our space adventures
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