A week later, I came to the Kennedy Space Center, which belongs to NASA, and if you want to say that Disney is everywhere, Kennedy has only one!

560 square kilometers and surrounded by a wildlife sanctuary, surrounded by woods, green areas, oceans, swamps, birds, crocodiles.

The well-known NASA, headquartered in Washington, has many branches, Houston has an R&D center, and California has a military center, the most well-known of which is here.

The most important place for spacecraft testing, preparation and launch. It undertakes all manned space launch missions, and the Apollo program, the Mercury program, and the Gemini program are all realized here, and is known as the home of the space shuttle.

Originally, it was just a park specially designed for astronauts and their families to inspect, but now it is open to the public as a comprehensive center for tourists to visit.

As soon as you enter the center gate, there is a rocket garden in front of you, and 8 real rockets rise from the ground, towering into the sky, and the tour guide introduces the Redstone series, the Atlas series and the Titan series that sent Americans into space for the first time.

Entering the Mars Journey Experience Hall, all kinds of information, devices, images, and knowledge quizzes about Mars exploration, even if you are a non-professional, most of them are not understandable, but Johnson still finds it interesting, and has an illusion of not knowing it.

Play a popular science video about the exploration of the moon and Mars, there is a special person to host the explanation, most of the surrounding primary and secondary school students, sitting on the ground, listening attentively, mouth wide open, and from time to time raise their hands to interact with the staff, maybe a few astronauts will be produced in the future.

Meet the Astronaut Conference Hall and listen to a presentation from a real astronaut. Tom Jones, who gave the speech that day, was selected as an astronaut at the age of 61 this year, at the age of 35, and flew the space shuttle into space four times before retiring.

Lao Mei is very humorous and eloquent, explaining how to become an astronaut and life in the space station. Probably how to go to the toilet in space, how to drink Coke in the cabin......

Finally, there is an interactive Q&A, the children raised their hands one by one, and the questions were one after another, and there were more young aerospace fans who seriously discussed with each other the professional questions that everyone could not understand, and the adults present looked at each other, so embarrassed!

After lunch, take the car to continue the visit, go to the real rocket launch pad and space project operation area, the senior tour guide explains the whole process of NASA landmarks, from technology, to NASA gossip, and political stories, everyone is stunned.

Launch pad 39A, where the space shuttle from the Apollo moon landing was launched. Now the 39A has been leased to SpaceX......

That space shuttle delivery platform, this guy is definitely a super behemoth, responsible for transporting the assembled space shuttle from the assembly building to the launch pad, and a track piece weighs two tons, which appeared in Transformers 3......

Don't underestimate the flame shield of these spacecraft when it was launched, and the flame burn marks on it record its mission and glory......

After getting out of the car, we first entered a room to restore the launch scene of Apollo 11, including the real scene of the control center, TV broadcast, and live images. When a 30-second countdown and nervous faces appeared on the screen, the hearts of those present would also pound.

When the rockets are lifted off the screen, the windows are lit red, the seats are shaking, and the roar that lasts for several minutes is all around, as if you are witnessing that great moment like the people on the screen.

The biggest attraction is the reconstructed Apollo Saturn 5, including the rocket connection, the lunar module, the launch escape tower, the command service module, the return module, etc., which rotated for more than an hour from beginning to end.

A total of 13 were launched, and 9 of them put the manned Apollo into lunar orbit. The final launch put the Skylab space station into low-Earth orbit and has been described as the most powerful launch vehicle system in history.

Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles. Standing below Saturn 5, shrouded in huge shadows, you can truly appreciate the heaviness and shock.

Starting at the Atlantis Theater, the crowd was gathered in front of a giant 3D screen. As the lights dim, the film begins in the grass off the Cocoa Coast, and as the camera moves, the view passes through the grass and the full view of the Kennedy Space Center launch pad is revealed.

The camera zooms in closer and closer, the rocket starts, ignites, and lifts off, and the roar shakes the earth. As the Hollywood-style soundtrack comes to an end, the Atlantis appears on the screen, and if you look closely, it turns out that it is not a screen projection, but a real body across the screen!

SC Johnson is amazing, this prelude effect exploded the audience, and it is definitely worth giving full marks. Then the screen rises and approaches the shuttle. The real Atlantis is tilted to a 45° position, and the hatch at the top opens, extending out the mechanical arm, maintaining the form it had been when it flew through space.

The Space Shuttle was primarily used to transport supplies to outer space, and Atlantis, the last space shuttle to be decommissioned, was built to save costs and be used for multiple purposes, and later played a huge role in the construction of the International Space Station.

However, the $1.5 billion cost of a single launch, combined with the tragedy of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle crashes, raises doubts about whether the shuttle was built for what it was built for.

It flew 17 times before being retired in 2011, marking the end of the Space Shuttle era. Now manned spaceflight is mainly developing a new generation of spacecraft Orion to meet the needs of manned flights to Mars.

Igniting a fire, $1.5 billion?

Johnson secretly smacked his tongue, scientific research is really the most awesome gold-swallowing beast, as long as it is involved with high technology, money will immediately become a number, and only the country can afford to play.

Change into a spacesuit, walk into the experience module, and experience the whole process of launch, from take-off, to space flight, to landing, a multi-faceted experience of vision, hearing, and touch.

In particular, the loud noise and vibration of take-off and landing are very shocking, and when the canopy is opened and you look up at the earth, it is a wonderful feeling......

No wonder the local tyrants want to leave the earth.

The strongest experience before leaving, marveling at the American-style patriotic education. It cannot simply be said that Lao Mei only advocates individual heroism, and the honor of the collective and the country is a huge ignition. All propaganda is not deliberate and blunt, and even irrelevant oneself can be infected, no wonder Hollywood is so awesome.

Even if there is still a great danger in space and burning money, human beings will still not stop, and there may be parts of our nature that are not willing to be trapped on land. Aerospace may be like sailing hundreds of years ago, when the whole country could only send one or two ocean-going ships, but now ocean-going shipping has become commercial, and it can be achieved with money.

Reminiscent of the Falcon rocket, which was recovered a few weeks ago, is already the result of the commercial company SpaceX. Even NASA has now put its power into a manned flight to Mars. As long as people have the belief that they do not want to be bound by land, they will definitely go further and further in space in the future.