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The future has landed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
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.
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