The Kennedy Space Center was almost surreal, it makes you reflect on what are incredible achievements. 440,000 people worked on the Apollo program to get a man on the moon! Now that I have touched moon rock (felt like a smooth slate tile) I am sure the conspiracy theories are rubbish!
The bus tour firstly took us past the massive Vehicle Assembly Building. The guide described it as an optical illusion, and they were right! It doesn’t look like it (probably because of the dimensions), but you can easily get the Empire State Building in there, you could comfortably drive a bus up the stripes on the flag painted on the outside and you can fit a baseball stadium on the roof with some room to spare. All of the rockets are assembled in the building and then transported to the launch pads on the crawler, which travels at a speed of 1 mph when laden!
We then went past
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/explore-attractions/race-to-the-moon
Bus Tour to Saturn V (moon rock)
Interesting fact: the Soviets had the advantage in the space race because their weapons programme was less advanced than the Americans. The Americans had built light warheads that required smaller rockets to deliver them. When the rockets were used for sending heavier cargoes to space,
I also didn’t know that Sputnik did nothing but orbit the planet and transmit a radio signal (beap)
Some bloke called me a “Kiwier”!
