began our first day in Orlando with the promised of rain. Together with the ticket sales people of the hotel so we decided to Cape Canaveral to the Kennedy Space Center to drive, because there are exhibitions in most buildings and you had to spend little time outdoors.
for the other two days we were hoping for better weather and booked a ticket each for the Universal Studios, and (of course) Disneyland. The ticket agent sold our semi-legal staff tickets, which were also only to residents of Florida with me a few headaches prepared, even if they were much cheaper than the normal cards, but everything went smoothly and we were in the three days required only once, where we map had actually come from. As instructed by him before we replied that we would have given them. I have the vague feeling that this flourishing black market at some point the valve is turned off, but it certainly works for us.
The Kennedy Space Center is located on a peninsula near Cocoa Beach and is an hour's drive from Orlando. Because the peninsula is a restricted military area, there could very well receive the nature and so is the area for the high density of sea turtles, alligators, bald eagles and golden eagles and manatees known. The real center is relatively small, with a memorial to the fallen astronauts, exhibitions on the significance of the moon landing and other artifacts, art gallery and a 3D cinema.
The real attraction, however, a bus tour along the assembly hall of the Space Shuttle (Vehicle Assembly Building) with the highest at 139 meters, doors to the world that are needed for the composite tanks can then also left the building, through to an observation deck overlooking the two Space Shuttle launch sites of the Space Center (since the crash can be from 2003 still provided a second shuttle for possible rescue.) In addition to looking from the vantage point on the old Cape Canaveral with the grid positions of Mercury and Geminireihe from the 1960s which now start only unmanned space flights.
had total, the entire site a bit lonely and old-fashioned, with few cars, people, etc., the great hype about the series is probably already a good 40 years ago. But I think the space shuttle launch yet still attract crowds of people, enough bleachers stood around, anyway.
However, it was a strange feeling, this plant, which is making incredible modern expeditions, already a thing of the past in front of 30, 40 years to see. We truly live in the postmodern era.
was the second stop of the bus tour in a Visitor Centre instead, in which the 1:1 copy of a Space Shuttle tanks filled with all stages starting a giant hall. There could be really nice so feel small. In the display cases were space suits like suits of armor and issued in a small show was acted out the moon landing. Since you seem familiar with the authenticity controversy of the moon video was (keyword visible microphone cable and the flags of the flag) and the waiver of too many excerpts from the original movie and you were rather limited, the moon landing to show in its time and the time impact on the World classified aka. why give it in the Cold War necessarily a picture of proof "had". After Film had the feeling as if there may have been the moon landing perfectly, there was no footage of it but just because this is not the technical conditions exist.
Back in the center we watched a film about the Hubble telescope, with beautiful pictures of evolving star systems, neighboring galaxies to black holes (with - for my taste - a bit too loud inspired by Star Trek Soundtrack) made the rounds of the rocket garden and watched a show on the Start space at. There was honored for Yuri Gagarin ("natural" one finds on the other side of the Iron Curtain growing up, but unusual for the Americans) could also visit the first original control room at NASA. Then it was back to the bus and an hour later we reached the hotel in the middle of the huge Orlando's hotel proliferation area in which stood 20 years ago orange groves. That evening we went to a nearby Indian restaurant, where in fact served as a sharp and so keen was the day was enjoyable, albeit with increased water intake, contrary to its end.
Das ist ein kleines Video von den zahlreichen Krähen, die das Kennedy Space Center als Zuhause gewählt haben. Sämtliche Raketen und Tankstufen eignen sich offenbar hervorragend als Nistplätze. Außerdem sieht man die riesige Kieselstraße auf der die Shuttles transportiert werden und einen Springbrunnen, der sich wohl bei fehlendem Sonnenlicht abschaltet (oder nur wenn ich näher komme) ... :)
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