The future of space travel comes to life at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, with the opening of its new attraction on June 15.
Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex features the spaceport of the future, Spaceport KSC, and an all-new restaurant, Space Bowl Bistro.
With a focus on present and future space exploration, guests to Gateway can experience interstellar travel of tomorrow while celebrating everything happening right.
It features a showcase of NASA and commercial spacecraft hardware with immersive displays.
“Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex is a bold new attraction where guests will personally experience NASA’s next giant leap ,” said Therrin Protze, chief operating officer, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
The 50,000-square-feet multi-level attraction will inspire visitors through experiences, artifacts and exhibits.
Featuring a comprehensive collection of modern-day spacecraft, Gateway gives guests the chance to experience the future of space travel in new ways.
Through immersive education, effects and a motion theater, guests will see, experience and feel what it’s like to travel in space.
Visitors are surrounded by actual flight flown artifacts and full-scale models, placed around the floor and suspended from above. They include:
- Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 Upper-stage Rocket Engine
- Boeing Crew Space Transporation-100 Starliner Mock-Up Capsule
- Boeing Starliner Simulator (full-scale model)
- LIFE Habitat Cut-Away (scale model)
- Lockheed Martin Space Habitat (full-scale mockup)
- NASA Space Launch System (SLS) rocket (scale model)
- SpaceX Falcon 9 booster (flight flown)
- United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket (scale model)
Gateway’s second floor features a 30-feet, fleer-to-ceiling Robotic Space Explorers Interactive Wall with touchscreen displays, where guests can learn about 40 different satellites and probes in space.
