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Photos of my Kennedy Space Centre visit -
1/ Replica of Hubble Space Telescope
2/ Unused Apollo Saturn 5 rocket with me standing under it ( enormous machine )
3/ Replica Mercury Redstone rocket on launch pad where Alan Shepard first took the US into space ( May 5. 1961 )
4/ Apollo 14 Command Module ( note it is all burnt , charred and rusted from re entry)
5/ New Space X hanger near pad 39A
6/ Apollo Vehicle Assembly Building VAB ( was built to assemble the Saturn 5 rocket from 1966 to 1972 then the Space shuttle from 1977 onwards) Was the largest building in the world by volume , now the 6th largest !
Incredible visit !!!
NASA are developing their SLS and Orion spacecraft for a man rated earth orbital mission in late 2019 or early 2020 and a lunar orbital mission in 2022.Their Mars unmanned mission is scheduled for 2032 and a Manned Mars mission around 2035 to 2040
Space X, Blue Origin and a few others out there on the Cape are pushing for an early schedule with Lunar and Mars missions
Exciting times ahead for future Space exploration !!!
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