Explorer Space Shuttle and USA Flags at entrance of the area
Closer image Explorer Space Shuttle
NASAs Rocket Garden - a display of missiles and sounding rockets
Saturn rocket (SA-209) - this was used on the Apollo missions and served as a backup launch vehicle during the manned Skylab missions
Back view of the Saturn rocket
Self explanatory
NASAs Vehicle Assembly Building - used to assemble launch vehicles from 1968-2011, at 3,664,883 cubic meters (129,428,000 cubic feet) this is one of the largest buildings in the world.
Tracks to take shuttle to launch pad, the journey along this track is 5 miles
The two Crawler-transporters - these are specially tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39
The Crawlers were given pet names "Hans" and "Franz" and cost approximately14 million dollars each and became the largest self-powered land vehicles in the World
View of one of the Crawlers
Both Crawlers
Launch Pad 39-A
This pad remains exactly as it was when the Atlantis Shuttle launched on its final mission on July 8, 2011
In May 2013 NASA announced that they are open to any proposals for commercial use of Launch Pad 39-A
Back view of the launch pad
The launch pad
The Exploration Centre
Former Shuttle crew member talking about life on a space mission
View of Atlantis entering the Atmosphere
