We went to visit the Kennedy Soace Center today (Cape Canaveral). It is much better than the Huntsville, AL facility plus it has all the historic launch sites and many real space rockets and vehicles. Every manned U.S. spaceflight was launched from here.
This is the shuttle assembly building, which is one of the largest volume buildings in the world. It's hard to get a perspective from a picture like this, but it's about 600 ft. tall, like a 60 story building, but it's only one story inside.....all open space for assembly and work on the shuttle and solid rocket boosters before launching. There is a shuttle inside the low building on the right with vent windows along the top. It was supposed to launch recently, but was damaged by hail and was returned to the "garage" to fix the hail damage before the rescheduled launch in April.


This is launch pad 39A where almost all of the Apollo missions were launched and many of the shuttle missions. They also have the full actual launch control consoles laid out just as they were in the Apollo mission launches. Everything here is HUGE! This is the business end of a real Saturn V three stage launch rocket.


It's almost 500 ft. tall, laid out on its side for the display. This is one of three "left over" Saturn Vs from the Apollo space program. Don't even ask how much it costs.

And here's the rocket engines on the bottom of the second stage. Just this engine section is still much larger than a house.



And they even let you touch an actual moon rock! This is a slice of moon rock brought back from the moon by an Apollo mission.