Gate to the KSC Visitor Complex in 2006 ; Space Shuttle Explorer | Explorer, a Space Shuttle mock-up, is in the background

Space Shuttle Explorer was removed from KSC Visitor Center December 11, 2011, by Beyel Bros and moved on a 144-wheel trailer by truck to the VAB turning basin dock at the VAB adjacent to the Launch Complex 39 Press Site to be loaded onto a barge bound for Johnson Space Center's Space Center Houston tourism facility in spring 2012.

Gate to the KSC Visitor Complex in 2006 ; Space Shuttle Explorer | Explorer, a mock-up of the Space Shuttle program | Space Shuttle, is in the background.

The Hall of Fame was previously owned and operated by the U. S. Space Camp Foundation, but was purchased at auction by Delaware North Park Services in September 2002 on behalf of NASA and the property was added to the KSC Visitor Complex.

On October 28, 2009, an Ares I-X test rocket lifted off from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) for a two-minute powered flight ; then continued for four additional minutes traveling down range.

The first NASA launch facility there ( Launch Complex 39 ) was designed and operated by MSFC, then in on July 1, 1962, the overall site achieving equal status with other NASA centers and was named the Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ).

The building is at Launch Complex 39 at KSC, halfway between Jacksonville and Miami, and due east of Orlando on Merritt Island on the Atlantic coast of Florida.

NASA will begin modifying Launch Complex 39 at KSC to support the new SLS.

Discovery lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), at 7: 33 am EDT on 17 June 1985.

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Pad B, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), Florida, at 14: 48 EDT on 4 May 1989.

Atlantis lifted off from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), at 12: 53 EDT on 18 October 1989.

Discovery lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), Florida, on 22 November 1989 at 7: 23 pm EST ; it landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, five days later.

20 September 1990 – Rare view of two space shuttle s ( STS-35 & STS-41 ) on adjacent KSC Launch Complex 39 pads.

Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) Launch Complex 39A at 7: 11 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time

Drawing of Apollo 1 plaque at KSC Launch Complex 34.

Drawing of second Apollo 1 plaque at KSC Launch Complex 34.

Included in the base admission is tour-bus transportation to an observation platform at Launch Complex 39, which provides unobstructed views of both launch pads and the surrounding KSC property, and the Apollo / Saturn V Center.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) is the United States launch site that has been used for every NASA human space flight since 1968.

The orbiter transporter was sent to KSC after the Vandenberg AFB launch site was abandoned and was used to transport the Orbiter from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

The west-side runways, also known as Runway 18L / 36R and Runway 18R / 36L, were designed to accommodate B-52 Stratofortress bombers and due to their proximity to NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, were an obvious choice for an emergency landing should an emergency " return to launch site ( RTLS ) attempt to land at KSC fall short.

However, bad weather at the KSC landing site resulted in yet another wave-off.

End-Of-Mission landing site, and the first mission to have a planned night landing at KSC.

The Space Coast is a region in the U. S. state of Florida around Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), where NASA launched Space Shuttles until the last one on July 8, 2011 at 11: 29 a. m .; and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, site of unmanned civilian and military space launches.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by Delaware North since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight.

After more than twenty organizations submitted proposals to NASA for the display of an orbiter, NASA announced that Enterprise will go to New York's Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Discovery will go the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum, Atlantis will remain in the Visitor Complex at Kennedy Space Center, and Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles ,.

* Grissom is named with his fellow Apollo 1 crewmates on the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

Having died in the line of duty for NASA, Carter's name was added to the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida.

JVC made headlines as the first-ever corporate partner of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

On April 12, 2006, Young appeared at the 25th anniversary of the STS-1 launch at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, along with pilot Robert Crippen.

* Washington D. C .: All of the buildings in the United States Capitol Complex are connected by tunnels and underground walkways, which provide easy passage between legislative office buildings, the Capitol building, the Capitol Visitor Center, and the Library of Congress in and inclement weather.

The Headquarters building ( also called the Visitor Center Complex ) was constructed of adobe bricks as a Works Progress Administration project starting in 1936 and completed in 1938.

Franklin Chang Díaz was inducted into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5, 2012 in a ceremony that took place the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

He also makes a public appearance occasionally to sign memorabilia at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and also appears for the complex's " Lunch with an Astronaut " program.

Kevin Chilton was inducted into the NASA Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 5th, 2012 in a ceremony that took place the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

It is mated to an Apollo FVV ( Facilities Verification Vehicle ) which was formerly displayed at the VAB's Visitor Complex c. October 1968.

The Bicentennial Complex on Taylors Road contains the main public buildings ( Visitor Centre, Post Office, Customs & Immigration Offices and Liquor Bond Store ), Rawson Hall and the Lions Park sports grounds and oval.

* 1995 – Delaware North wins the contract to run the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

The company now operates at other venues including Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls State Park, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Gideon Putnam Resort ( among others ).

File: FLW-Darwin D Martin-Entrance-2009-04-03. jpg | Entrance to the new Visitor Center ( back left ) and the Martin House Complex ( right )

The Space Mirror Memorial, also known as the Astronaut Memorial, is a memorial on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Merritt Island, Florida.

It is maintained by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, whose offices are located in the NASA Center for Space Education next door to the Visitor Complex.

It was built in Apopka, Florida by Guard-Lee and installed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 1993.

Explorer was displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex atop cement pilings and secured with steel cabling.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will construct a new building to display the retired shuttle Atlantis.

These units are the Andrew Johnson Visitor Complex, the Andrew Johnson Homestead, and the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery.