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ATX Family
Explore the final frontier together during Family Astronaut Training Experience (ATX) at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Your family will spend two days immersed in astronaut training, riding realistic simulators and building and launching your own rockets. You will meet a veteran NASA astronaut and spend time exploring Kennedy Space Center on a very special tour designed for Family Astronaut Training Experience participants. Finally, you will work together to perform a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in a full-scale orbiter mock-up and fully outfitted mission control facility.
Ages: 8 and older
Price: $625 (plus tax) for first two participants ($275 each additional participant)
Daily Schedule:
Day 1
2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Meet the ATX instructors and your new teammates, and get checked into your hotel. Next, board a KSC bus for a private tour of Kennedy Space Center. Walk in the heroic footsteps of America’s astronauts from Alan Shepard to today’s space shuttle astronaut pilots and scientists.
From there, you’ll head to the Training Facility at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of FameŽ for a pizza party and a lively presentation about the rigors of spaceflight and its effect on the human body. The day concludes with building your model rocket for the next day's launch.
Day 2
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Mission Day! Your day begins at the Training Facility with a space shuttle briefing to prepare you for your space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Experience realistic spaceflight simulators and begin learning how to perform your mission assignment. Before you launch, enjoy a buffet lunch where you will meet a veteran NASA astronaut. You will have time to ask questions about what spaceflight is really like, and receive an autographed photo of one of America's heroic space explorers. Then it’s back to the Training Facility for the culmination of ATX - launching your model rocket and taking part in a successful space shuttle mission!
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