welcome good morning everybody from the Kennedy Space Center we are here waiting
for a launch in one hour and six minutes we're gonna see a rocket launch here
from the Kennedy Space Center so I'm gonna go get my tickets take you guys
along this could be fun so it's 60 bucks to get in here to the Space Center
museum after the launch first obviously we had to launch I want to get some good
seats I'm really interested in what it's gonna feel like and sound like being I
don't know six miles from where they're taking off I don't know anything about
the launch yet so I'm gonna go wait in line get our seats and we'll find out
what's going on today oh this is what they're calling the viewing area for
ticket holders people lining up not exactly sure where it's gonna somewhere
over here is where it'll take off and again this is a Falcon X rocket it is
going to have a GPS for the United States Navy going up and good day for a
launch right we're gonna be getting a closer look here later hopefully the
ticket includes some bus tours as well not a very big turnout but like I said
this launch has been scrubbed quite a few times there's a screen here that's
gonna show some information and a countdown later I think it's gonna go up
somewhere over here well the launch has been delayed a
little bit about 50 minutes so far due to wind not wind here but wind up there
there's still once they went once they start this 42 minute countdown though
we're probably gonna have a launch today like I said it just got postponed we'll
just have to wait and see a lot of people have walked away to go do indoor
things they seem to think the launch isn't going to happen
this is a two-stage rocket launch so there will be thrusters for like a
minute and then those will go off and there'll be another one and then a
capsule to protect the GPS up there I did bring my zoom lens just since I've
never been to one of these I don't know what to expect I'm gonna stay with the
wide-angle at least because I think it'll show more of what's going where
we're at right now is about a 12 5 minutes to takeoff but they also said
that because of the high wind they're gonna do the countdown as normal but at
30 seconds to take off it's a 50-50 chance they can cancel it at 30 seconds
or they can go ahead and lift off based on the exact conditions at 30 seconds
so we've already fueled up the fuel is negative 300 degrees in there that don't
the jet fuel that they're using in theirs and they have to wait till like
the last minute to actually load it up
that's the way NASA is though they scrubbed it it's too nice in Florida
it's too windy way up there so I'm only here one day that's just the way it
happens I thought I'd get lucky thought I'd see a launch there's lots to see
here we load it in that ticket so let's go around and check out Kennedy Space
Center today we'll have to get on a bus to go see some stuff because this place
is so big let's go up to the gift store I do need to get a NASA magnet
Welch's room I think that's my favorite one
that'll be my first NASA scrub magnet well this is the line for the buses much
longer lines than Disney
and now more lines
my name's Harry I'll be your escort for our ride out to Apollo Saturn 5 ok the
launch this morning was scrubbed obviously the SpaceX Falcon 9 I think
we're gonna try to get tomorrow boy that'd be like the fifth or sixth day
trying to get that launch oh yeah they had computer issues and then weather and
it was weather again today I win got him today so I'll get my seat and we'll be
heading out they'll try again tomorrow but it $60 to get back in again so
that's where the astronauts family and friends watch launches from guys right
up there they do that so they can keep the media away from the family that's
very important
when I was a kid I used to dream about flying through space so they recreated
Mission Control for 1968
yet a load of those engines that's impressive it's amazing that this even
fits inside this building over here they've got some old newspaper clippings
there's men walk on moon from st. Louis 1968 Snoopy the astronaut so you can see
people walking around to get an idea for how big the stage 1 is there and then
here's where it would separate for stage 2 so here we have the lunar module here
this is what they used to land on the moon and then the bottom part stayed on
the moon and this got them back of course they've got food the snacks
underneath the module and stage 3 here
then we got the service module right here for storage and cargo and stuff and
again there's the capsule that's the one that would have got them back to earth
with a parachute over the water so this old GMC looking RV ambulance is how they
transported the astronauts I think we can look in on the back door here
astronaut van
pretty cool place nice little Apollo one memorial here inside the three
astronauts that lost their lives just like driving in an RV right
here is a lunar module cockpit example
some of those controls look familiar do the Apollo 13 movie again cozy here's a
moon buggy meant for the moon there's some examples
of moon boots a spacesuit and a helmet down there from Apollo 14 they saved the
used capsule you know when it's reentering the Earth's atmosphere it got
burnt up here's what it looks like now after being burnt outside for some fresh
air you know even without the actual rocket launch today this is still worth
60 bucks just to look around I mean it was funny I was wondering why everyone
was leaving when they said oh it's high winds up there but we're still gonna
take off and like half the people left I was like guys they said it's still on
they're gonna no they cancelled it with 30 seconds left on the clock so and the
guy next to me he said this is his 12th 12th time coming to a launch that's been
cancelled scrubbed so I guess that's really common like they it's never like
scheduled that's why not a whole lot of people actually get to see a launch cuz
you just keep coming back every other day I know that's a really cool place I
highly recommend it it's a cool facility and next up Atlantis and go check it out
inside here
I've always wondered how big it really is in person it's like oh it's so close
he can touch it too I was like one of the first people out here Wow looks like
it's made of paper mache
very impressive
Wow
I smell jet fuel so this is in its state from its last mission here in this
museum here I check out the bottom of Atlantis covered in tiles wasn't those
ones that break if you touch them but they're really good for heat and here's
a Hubble which would have fit inside the Atlantis she's all put together why need
that heat protection because you're falling at 17,000 miles per hour and
here's that Canada control arm which is being manned by someone in the aircraft
you can see his boots latched on to it so he can work
be blown out in this way think if we do an engine swap on Yoda
would get a few more horsepower of this bad boy huh
who doesn't want 37 million horsepower right we're now standing underneath the
shuttle here in case you're wondering how big it it's pretty cool they brought
it into this building but it's huge here's the tires on the shuttle these
are used tires from space and they can carry three times the capacity of a 747
tire on an airplane they'll get the job done in an astro van carrying the
astronauts to the launch pad a little bigger than the one in the other
building it's an Airstream tight looking GMC how cool is that
oh man put that on the road look at this guy's I'm orbiting with one hand so
surprisingly just like SeaWorld there's a lot to do here at Kennedy Space
Station at NASA a lot to do we're hungry and I got to get back to Jack's I don't
like leaving them too long so we're gonna go find some food my buddy Lucas
has a spot down near Cocoa Beach we're gonna go try out lunch grub the
restaurant is right on the beach with sand and the water
we're trying out pelicans cars cool that's from interview the Atlantic Ocean
got a soda here and look at the straw like that's kind of a weird looking
straw like is it a biodegradable cardboard or something no they use cost
answers for straw this years because we're on the beach close your straw hat
on the beach and lunch is here I got the fish and chips on their menu here but
those are my clean clothes that I haven't folded yet you're you're keeping
them warm until I fold them thanks for your help Jax that's so kind of you well
it's the next morning and I'm here in Orlando so I'm testing out a new sewer
hose here I have a problem with my bumper where it's stored though actually
the reason why I've always carried around this smaller one which doesn't
reach anywhere is because the bumper that holds the hose right there is a
problem it's kinked in and every hose stops right there so I only have about
two feet to really maneuver there I need to get a new bumper which is basically
just a bolt on bumper so I'll get one later but this is my little campground I
thought it was gonna have a little more trees it's a little more open than I
expected but let me get a few things together and then I'll show you down by
the main area down there oh and also ironically this morning
the Falcon X 9 thing it launched on the seventh attempt right up there you can
kind of see it this morning I didn't film it because it was just a tiny
little speck but uh there's some non-copyright video that I can show so
you'll see that right now
tennis courts and more tennis courts and shuffleboard there playing shuffleboard
over there another mini putt-putt golf course here and a pool several pools
several I mean there are four different pools there's two pools right there and
saunas it's pretty cool but anyway I'm just using it for the parking mostly I'm
gonna take the bike out and go see a movie actually I'm gonna be going to
Disney springs AMC I signed up for their a-list thing which just signed up so I'm
not gonna not gonna preach it but if you think about it you get up to three
movies a week all month for only 20 bucks so up to 12 movies a month in an
AMC movie theater for 20 bucks a month and my first ticket that I just bought
tonight to go see a movie was 1695 for one ticket so he pay it back within two
movies every month and I like to see movies so can I go take the motorcycle
back down to Disney springs tonight which is really convenient it's like
eight miles away from this campground that's exactly why I wanted to do this
kind of stuff so also my eyes yeah I talked about swelling and that I coming
back to me I'm actually on my third round of antibiotics guys just wanted to
let you know I am still battling this it is still a virus a bacterial infection
virus of my eyes that's being treated third round of antibiotics and it is
much better right now nothing to see much much better than it's been in the
past but still working on it with the eyedrops and the cream two times a day
so doing what I can do but anyway from Jackson I will see you back down we'll
be doing something totally different in Florida for the next little bit here
excited to share with you but have a good day guys