Exploring NASA's Kennedy Space Center & Where To Stay When You're Visiting! | History, Facts & More!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2022
- In today's vlog we head to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to explore the visitor's complex and see the new exhibits. We were invited to the grand opening of the Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex, which we coved in another vlog that will be linked down below. There was so much to show and it was such an interesting exhibit that we dedicated an entire vlog to it. This vlog was the second part of that day. We show you a great place to stay while you're visiting the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and it's also a great place to visit if you're looking for a place to watch a rocket launch (if there's availability at the Space Bar). We talk about our thoughts after our overnight stay and tour the hotel, pool and recreation areas. Then we head over to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex for the day. We check out new exhibits as well as updated exhibits. This is one of our favorite places to visit in Florida because of the history, artifacts and other space-y goodness! We hope you had fun hanging out with us today at KSC and we hope you'll check out this amazing lace on your next Florida trip. Thank you for watching and we'll see you tomorrow with a new vid!
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OH BOY A ROCKET LAUNCH!
Tim, you are completely authentic, informative, and articulate. And I thank you!. Mg
THE SPACE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!
HEY TIM WE STAYED THERE IN APRIL AND SAW A NIGHTTIME LAUNCH FROM THE SPACEBAR, THE HOTEL IS AWESOME FOR WHEN YOU VISIT THE SPACE CENTRE👍
So much of this space stuff goes WAY over my head, but it just goes to show how smart Tim is that he gets it all! Great editing Jenn😊
@@mare8371 I know this😊
Wow thanks Tim. That was so interesting. Love it when you go to Kennedy Space Center. I loved how the bed in the room actually faced the window, what a genius idea. I really hope you stay there when a launch is happening as I would REALLY love to witness that. And only our Tim could find usb ports in an umbrella 😆
Actually Tim, "Space Camp" was filmed partially at the first (and last remaining) Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. I was a junior in high school and attended school near Huntsville. I have friends who were extras in the movie. You and Jen and Jackson should come up here to go to the Space Center and see everything the Rocket City has to offer. Take care!
There were some geographically unrealistic moments in the movie "Space Camp" where campers supposedly drove from Huntsville, down to KSC, and then back to camp in basically no time. In real life it would be about an 11 hour drive one way.
But yes, there was a branch of Space Camp near KSC.
Also, did you ever visit Disney's California Adventure back when they had a Condor Flats area? Two of the songs playing in the area ambiance soundtrack was the theme from the movie "Space Camp" and the them from "The Right Stuff." So a nice Disney - NASA connection. For a while, there was also part of a space shuttle main engine on display outside the Test Pilot Grill.
I love the solar power USB! Amazing room...mural is beyond cool! So interesting 🤔
This was so COOL. The fact that they made those capsules specifically for the astronaut on the mission. For all that money, they were betting on no one getting hurt. That blows my mind. And that Space Bar would be so cool to be at during a launch. Thanks for sharing this cool experience with us! Very informative and fascinating! :D
We came here last year to watch a launch. It was a pretty amazing feeling to see it in person. I live right by the national air force base museum so we get to see a lot of fun nasa and space stuff but never get to watch anything cool like a space launch.
This video was perfect timing with the new Webb scope images being released.
I pass that everyday for work! Working with SpaceX is alot of work, but fun!!
My Grandpa worked at KSC for years. We went back years later and he told the best stories. The tour guide gave some looks but I loved it.
That was such a amazing job showing us the Kennedy Space Center and hotel
This looks awesome thank you for sharing this and my family hope's you feel better soon
I will be waiting with bated breath for that rocket launch video!
Thank you so much for the Hotel and Space Center tour. It was really neat to see stuff from the different Space Programs. Also I like the star picture and nightlight in the Hotel Room
The Atlantis exhibit at KSC (not covered here) was far and away my fave when I visited. Always appreciate the hotel reviews, so detailed!
Because of this I have convinced my family to go for a mini trip the next time we are in Florida. Thanks a bunch. By the way love your videos
Love the detail in this video, I can’t wait for SLS to launch, I hope your do a video from that roof!
I remember that NASA Bus Tour when I was 5 and 8 years old. Never have I been so bored in Florida as when I was on that bus tour 😂
Wow so cool and so fascinating! We've got tickets for next year! :-) Can't wait!
As a life long central Florida resident , I love Tim’s passion for NASA. I share his admiration and love these videos. Great job Tracker’s 💪🏽💪🏽🇺🇸🇺🇸
My mom really appreciates your knowledge of space stuff at KSC because she is a space geek too and great job Tim as always and the hotel looks really cool. I’m a Disney adult so we both enjoyed this video.
I have been there many I just wanna say I love this place!
We have a trip coming up, and this is the hotel we booked. Thanks for showing it.
Watching this on July 13 2022, which is the day of the super moon for this year, listening to Tim’s moon facts!!!
Thank you what an interesting factually video.
Can’t wait to go !!! I’ll be there in November !
Awesome!! Thank you!
Another great video Tim !
For sure bucket list hotel! Thanks for the tour Tim! 🚀
Love your fun and informative vlogs!
Love the Kennedy Space Centre. Great video, thanks for taking us along x
Great vlog ! Thanks
Amazing video , I can’t wait to visit . Thank you Tim 😊
hi Tim thanks for the tour 🤸🏼
This video was SO COOL!!!! Thank you for such an extensive tour!
3:22 love the view from the water
My dad was on the team that created the Lunar Orbiter camera and refocused it to take the picture of Earth in 1966 that was called "Earthrise." He would have loved this!
Wow very cool to learn more about theses astronauts all theses famous people that went to space and I love mtv space man from the music awards so amazing thanks Tim
What a cool place to stay when you visit! Never knew.
What a great interesting video. Thanks for another great video
What a great vlog, you do such a great job.
Wow, looks like amazing views from there, would love to see a launch ❤️
Such a great place 🚀 super vlog 👍🏻
Tim is a space nerd and I love it
I absolutely loved the video guys it brought back fond memories of when my family took a vacation to the Huston space scenter
Tim Thank you , Thank you for showing the hotel and going to the cape. We are differently going to stay at the hotel and love it when you go to the Cape.
Thank you so much for all the great information. We will be making our first trip to the Kennedy Space Center in June.
I live in southern Indiana close to Spring Mill state Park. We have a cool little space center there as a memorial to Gus G. They have a Space Capsule and one of his spacesuits and a video on his time and NASA and his death. pretty cool to see him up on that wall
Always loved Nasa great seeing a shuttle over head when I lived in fl
We've kayaked Merritt Island and saw some of this from the water. Very cool!!!
Great video when we can make it over to the USA again from Australia would love to visit. It seems like an interesting and fascinating place. I love all your videos. Hope you recover from covid quickly and are back out and about soon x
Love the Movie Space Camp. Can't even find to buy. But can watch it here on UA-cam
We go next month because of your videos. 😊
YAY love the kennedy space center and cant wait to get back her
Hey tim good vlog and thank you and keep up the good work you do love jari
Went to NASA for the first time two years ago. Alan Shepard was from Derry N.H. I-93 from Salem to Manchester is known as the Alan B. Shepard Highway.
Wow i didn’t know that fact about 93
That hotel is out-of-this-world ;) I usually can see a launch from my backyard. Last month I saw one from the beach. It was pretty cool. There's a nighttime launch on 07/14 at 8:44pm.
Get well soon Tim 💕
I so want to go there. My home town in Hutchinson KS is the home of the Kansas Cosmophere. This place is fabulous, we have the Liberty Bell capsule that Mecury astronaut Gus Grissom flew and it sank after it landed. Gus said the hatch just blew. The KC helped get it and did all the restoration on it. Then we have the Apollo 13 capsule, looking in there and just thinking what those men went thru. Then all those original mission control panels and controls were all shipped here and went thru restoration, th KC have a couple of them that you can sit down at. I also cared for a patient and his wife worked at NASA back in the late 50s and 60s she new all the Mercury, Gemini, some of the Apollo astronauts. She told me a lot of great stories and she said Alan Shepard was definitely a joker. Sorry for the long post but if you are ever driving thru KS stop in Hutchinson stop by and take a tour you won't b e sorry
Nice place
Good afternoon Timothy Vlogsworth!
I really hope you get to take Jackson to see a launch some time. 😁
NOTICE: it says “TRACKER” at 22:58 on the display keyboard assembly from Apollo 10! 👀 I can imagine Tim saying “Tim Tracker??” Lol.
Alan Shepard went to my high school and he actually named our mascot
There is the "Moon Tree Garden" that is outside the doors by The Firing Room and the end of the Rocket. It was put in I want to say about 3-4 years ago and is a nice tribute to the Apollo Program
I so want to stay at this hotel x
I am so tempted to go to Kennedy Space Center when I go to WDW later this year but I’m nervous about taking an Uber there alone.
Hi. An Uber will cost you a fortune - it's about 60 miles or so from Disney. The good thing is that it's very easy to get to by rental car from the airport. (It doesn't matter if you're actually coming in at the airport at that time - you can rent vehicles at the airport no matter what.) I found the simplest route to be 528 "The Beachline" east (the highway that goes by the airport) all the way to route 3 "Courtenay Pkwy" on Merritt Island. Take a left and go north until you get to Space Commerce Way. Turn left at the light and the big sign that says Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex - turn left". Drive past the warehouse-looking Blue Origin facilities, and the next light is the space center entrance at the right.
It's very simple to get there once you get out of the airport loop. BTW - 528 is a toll road, so ask the rental car desk about any Sunpass options. I think most rental cars come with them anyway since two major highways going through Orlando are toll roads.
Anyway, I hope you do decide to go, it is a really fun day trip.
@@jillparks thanks for the information. I definitely want to go to KSC but I’m thinking of maybe doing a Disney cruise from the cape next year so I might have to save it until then.
@@cucug8324 That is an excellent plan. The port is essentially near the end of 528, so it's extremely convenient to plan KSC and a cruise for another visit.
The twin sonic boom over central Florida to let us know that space shuttle had made it home safe and sound, that was always great!
I can’t imagine how terrifying & then sad it was not to hear them on March 1, 2003. Hard to believe it’ll be 20 years ago this coming March since we lost Columbia. Been listening to the Audiobook of Bringing Home Columbia on Audible. Not an easy listen, but it you’re interested in Space & The Shuttle Era, I highly recommend it.
I still love Disney, but it's cool to see something different!
I'm really going to have to take a trip there--thanks for sharing all the cool space stuff!!
We haven't been to KSC since 2011, when the last shuttle launch happened. It would be so neat to go back, especially since Artemis is about to happen. I would want to get an annual pass, but sadly can't afford one at the moment for 2 of us.
I wanna get wrecked at the space bar now!!
Hey I went to Nasa Kennedy space center for 1 time since I was small.
Thanks for sharing. Watching this coz we plan to go July 2023 as first timers. We plan to go the day before a Disney Wish cruise. Question. How far is this center from the hotels at port canaveral or at Port Canaveral?
Are Rideshares like Lyft and Uber easily accessible in the area?
Thank you for this wonderful review. I work at KSCVC in the call center for selling tickets and making reservations. We hold Camp KSC each summer. Our camp is a week long day camp but it includes all the activities of the Astronaut Training Experience and much more. Please come see us again soon! ♫
We went on Sunday. Fantastic. Last time we were at KSC was 2008. I asked about the Landing Pad observation deck bus detour and apparently it’s just restarted at $25pp. Great day, thanks for commentary on all the bits we missed!
According to the IMDb, Spacecamp was filmed in Huntsville Alabama. Which makes sense that's where the real life Space Camp took place. It's also where training for shuttle astronauts trained.
I was up there for work with Blue Origin and stopped by the Space And Rocket Center! Soooo cool!! Its right outside Redstone Arsenal military base
@@coburnbatman Sounds really cool.
Yes, it is based on the space camp here in Huntsville, Al. I live about 4 miles from The Space and Rocket Center.
Came to the comments to post this! Happy to see folks beat me to it. Love Huntsville, and love the Spaces and Rocket Center - especially their Thursday Beer Garden Evers (I know not the German spelling). My job has allowed me so behind the scenes tours of the center and I loved it. Goal is to move from east coast to Huntsville.
"You wouldn't be crowded up here watching a rocket launch."
(Brevard County natives who've had to drive through post-launch traffic laugh)
Just wait. The hotel will have to turn people away due to capacity issues.
Edit to add: I always tear up when watching the Apollo 8 launch recreation. Such a thing of nerd beauty.
This video was released the same day NASA's James Webb Telescope released brand new space photos.
I remember them saying the VAB is so big your brain can't calculate it's scale because there's nothing around to give it real scale. The flag on the side, just the blue star field is the size of a football field.
Some day jackson might wanna fly to mars
There is a joke that I heard a little while age that might go well with this Video. Have you heard about the claustrophobic astronaut? He just needed a little Space!
Lol 😂
tim you ever go over to patrick spaceforce base?
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Perfect timing!
Maybe someone said this already. Is the hotel room wall image upside down so you can view it while lying in bed? Just a thought. Love all your videos!
Whenever I see a figure in a space suit, wonder if it's rigged to have the shield fly open. It would scare the crappy out of people!
I have a suggestion, but it’s a complicated one. Why don’t you do I live stream with Jenn in the other room? 🙈very complicated. 😊👍
First one here ☺️☺️
The astronaut ice cream is lovely. I’ve eaten some before.
All I can say is Compliance 👽
It leaked ...
Tim just singing the praises of a headboard like no one’s seen a headboard in a hotel room. 😂
First and wonnnn
This is awesome hope you feel better
That was a superb,was there back in 2004 great fun
hey Tim how you feeling and how is your Covid is doing
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so this was clearly filmed before Tim got covid, either that of the last vid was an old one
This was filmed before he got covid!!