people might ask do we really even need NASA do we really even need space
exploration and why do that when there's so many problems right here on earth
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so in 1958 President Eisenhower founded NASA or the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration and the Kennedy Space Center obviously is a NASA
establishment and right here is the Visitor Center and there's tons of
exhibits to see different displays to see a ton of history regarding and just
space and the space program and all of the things that NASA has had a handed
over the years
so in September of 1961 NASA purchased this land here on Merritt Island in
Florida to support the Apollo lunar landing program so the Kennedy Space
Center here has actually been very pivotal this was actually the very first
site that launched a mission with man to the moon so very historical area in the
sense that this was the actual area where that very first mission to send
man to the moon started so the East Coast is actually optimal for rocket
launches because of the direction of that our spin
so if rocket launches happened on the west coast it would actually be fighting
the spin of the earth and make it more difficult plus it would put those
Rockets over more populated areas so the East Coast here is the optimal location
to be able to launch rockets from and that is why that you see those Rockets
being launched from this East Coast area yes we're going to Mars imagine standing
on the Red Planet millions and millions of miles away from the earth hey does
this look real or layers it looks real check it out it's Lego no
way oh you know there's no way there's actually quartz it's really interesting
things people might ask do we really even need NASA do we really even need a
space exploration and why do that when there's so many problems right here on
earth in that's a really good question but when you look at it what's very
interesting is that NASA technology in the space exploration technology is
actually something that has improved all of our everyday lives
beings like satellites cell phones we wouldn't have GPS if we didn't have
satellites things like artificial limbs are all NASA developed technology that
have improved everyday life for pretty much all of us at one point or another
so it's a very important that we keep this program going for people to
continue to improve our lives and the quality of other's lives as well so
another really interesting thing is is that there's actually a special patch
for every single mission that's ever been flown on the space shuttles or even
the original lunar modules and each of those patches for each of those missions
have the names the last names the astronauts
embroidered into those patches except for one and that would be the Apollo 11
and that was because that was the first one that put me on
at one small step for man in Neil Armstrong any sort of kind of fame to be
associated with that in this sense that that mission was to be for all mankind
not for that actual crew but for an advancement of all mankind so that is
the only patch that you will see that does not have the last names of the crew
embroidered on too much so one of the really fun things to do is to take a bus
tour because they can take you out system areas that you just can't go as a
private citizen so we're gonna hop on a bus yeah take the bus tour of some of
the areas that we just wouldn't be able to go see ourselves
so some really interesting things about the bus tour it takes you over to the
Saturn 5 rocket center and they actually show you where one of the actual
launches took place and so it's an actual firing room isn't it what did you
think of the fire well what I thought was like I thought this like that is
gonna be another show like this fire tossing or something but it's just
basically a bunch of computers huh yeah but it's where the exact four they
actually did the firing for the rocket but one thing that was in there is they
did have a tribute to the Apollo 1 astronauts and something that was really
interesting is they had a board that showed all of the different Apollo
missions and of course if you're familiar with what happened with Apollo
13 it was kind of a disastrous mission in this sense of there were mechanical
problems and so the crew was supposed to go land on the moon and they did not get
to but something that really struck me is it said on the board that it was a
successful failure to land on the moon and it just struck me because I thought
how many times you know do we maybe fail at things in life and we just think oh
well that was a failure but yet NASA called that a successful failure because
all of the crew came back home and safe and so it just really hit me in the way
that even maybe when we fail with something what's really truly a success
is when we are home when we are with our families when more with those that we
love when you know we return to where we came from really and that is what is the
success even so maybe what we set out to do didn't go the way that we thought so
just something that really struck me that I will definitely carry with me
from this place but another tip that we wanted to give
you if you decide to come here the bus tour get on the bus first huh yeah why
should we get on the bus where should we have gotten on the bus first because we
never really got to visit like these heroes and legends thing I'm on the
first of all we started like exploring but first you should really go on the
bus tour and then do everything after the line was really long so waiting till
later in the day to do the bus tour the line just got longer and longer and we
probably could have gotten on the bus came back quicker it hit me not I needed
to stand in such a long line and it wasn't that long where we got here at
the beginning of the day so if you do decide to come you definitely want to do
the bus tour earlier in the day versus later in the day so thank you so much
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