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Where else in the world can you tour the launch areas of a working space flight facility, have the opportunity to meet a real astronaut and stand inches away from the largest rocket ever built? Only at Kennedy Space Center! Located just minutes from Port Canaveral on Florida's Space Coast, the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at one of mankind's most fascinating and remarkable achievements - the space program where history was, and still is, made every day. On your tour into KSC, you'll have the chance to see the Apollo/Saturn V Center which offers an inspirational and exhilarating look into mankind's quest for the moon.

There's a lot of activities offered at the Apollo/Saturn V Center, including reliving the historic launch of Apollo 8 at the Firing Room Theater; also, being able to marvel at a monstrous 363-foot Saturn V moon rocket. Pick and choose wisely since you won’t have time to see everything. Your options include seeing an IMAX® movie, the interactive Astronaut Encounter program or the Shuttle Launch Experience. Finally, your chance to be an astronaut!

Come ride the adventure of a lifetime. Travel across the waters of the Everglades into the scenic natural wetlands of Florida on a 30-minute airboat ride. Your certified captain will whisk across the deep and shallow water into the highways of the swamp. Each ride will offer you a unique and exhilarating experience of its own. Come within hands reach of alligators, snakes, osprey, and turtles. You’ll also have the opportunity to see eagles, hawks, cranes, egrets, and herons soaring above. As you race across the water, see the picturesque habitats of Florida including pickerel weed and water lilies. Be sure to hold on to your hats as you rip across the headwaters of the Everglades on this fun-filled educational tour. After your airboat ride, get up close and personal with more than 200 native and exotic animals. Visit with the 14-foot gator, Crusher, as well as his friends Snowflake and Blizzard, the albino alligators.

Come see dolphins, manatees, and the diversity of life paired with beautiful scenery. Begin with an easy paddle en route to the kayak launch site. Your tour guide will explain the significance of this endangered backwater estuary. Paddle the mangrove as osprey soar overhead, and cross expansive grass flats. Perhaps see the lagoon's top predator- the dolphin- working the flats. Mangroves and sea grass beds create an environment very conducive to the marine life, which supports the osprey, dolphins and other animals. More than 4,000 animal and plant species such as manatees, stingrays, sea turtles, seahorses, 700 species of fish and 310 species of birds, call the Indian River Lagoon "home".

Come ride the adventure of a lifetime. Travel across the waters of the St John’s River into the scenic natural wetlands of Florida on a 30-minute pontoon boat ride. Your certified captain will whisk across the deep and shallow water into the highways of the swamp. Each ride will offer you a unique and exhilarating experience of its own. Come within hands reach of alligators, snakes, osprey and turtles. You’ll also have the opportunity to see eagles, hawks, cranes, egrets and herons soaring above. As you race across the water see the picturesque habitats of Florida including pickerel weed and water lilies. Be sure to hold on to your hats as you rip across the St. Johns River on this fun filled educational tour.

Learn to surf at Cocoa Beach - Surf Capital of the World! You’ll be briefed on ocean safety and marine life awareness. Your experienced instructor will teach you how to manage your surfboard on land and in the water which will get you up and surfing safely in no time. Who knows, you may be able to ‘hang ten’ before the day is over!

Learn the history of Port Canaveral . From the pier head over to the Air Force Space and Missile History Center to learn where the spirit of space exploration began. The history center features exhibits highlighting every launch complex on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Next top you will visit a fish house and working dock, where thousands of pounds of seafood are caught each year. Here is where one of Florida’s most known species got its start: the Rock Shrimp. Don’t leave without getting your sample of fresh Canaveral Shrimp. You will end your tour at Jetty Park. Jetty Park is its own secluded, tropical paradise that the locals love and people from all over the world come to see for themselves. Jetty Park’s Malcolm E. McLouth Fishing Pier is a 1,200 foot fishing pier that extends into the ocean and has fish cleaning stations with running water and lighted for night fishing.

The Kennedy Space Center provides a day of discovery for the entire family as you experience the exciting past, present and future of America’s space program. Your tour begins with a short ride to Kennedy Space Center, where upon arrival, you can participate in the Shuttle Launch Experience which replicates the sights, sounds and feelings of a shuttle launch and orbiting Earth aboard a Space Shuttle. Guest crew members strap in and go vertical for launch in a one-of-a-kind motion-based simulator, the only realistic simulation of a launch ever created.

The five-minute experience sequence culminates with a breathtaking view of Earth from space. You’ll then board an exclusive coach for a tour of NASA’s restricted areas. Ride out to the Space Shuttle launch pads, closer than other guests are allowed and see the vehicle assembly building and visit the Apollo/Saturn V Center. Here you’ll relive the launch of the massive Saturn V rocket and enjoy a front-row seat as man lands on the moon. Upon conclusion of your personal tour of Kennedy Space Center, you’ll be transported by motorcoach to the Orlando International Airport.