Kennedy Space Center

The US Space Walk of Fame in Titusville commemorates the astronauts of the US space program.

The Mercury program put the first man in space.

The Gemini program developed the techniques for working in space.

The Apollo program put man on the moon.

At the Kennedy Space Center a rocket garden has a collection of rockets used from the unmanned flights through to the manned space flight. It was amazing to see how small the Mercury and Gemini capsules were: not much larger than the people they carried.

This type of rocket was used in the early days of the Apollo program. It is much larger than the Mercury and Gemini rockets.

This giant rocket was used to put men on the moon.

Explorer-1, America’s first satellite was launched from here.

This small launch complex is where first American in space was launched. Alan Shepard took off from here on a Mercury Redstone rocket, on 5 May 1961.

The tragic Apollo 1 fire occured on this launch pad.

The tragic Apollo 1 fire occured on this launch pad.

This memorial honors NASA, civilian and military astronauts who died in the line of duty.