The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site is midway between Miami and Jacsonville, Florida.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is home to a number of museums, two IMAX theatres, and various bus tours allowing visitors a closer look at various restricted areas than would otherwise be possible. Included in the base admission is tour-bus transportation to an observation gantry on the grounds of Launch Complex 39, as shown, and to the Apollo-Saturn V Center, a large museum housing a restored Saturn V launch vehicle and various other exhibits, including one theatre that reconstructs an Apollo-era firing room, where visitors can relive an Apollo launch, and another where visitors can relive the Apollo 11 landing.
The Visitor Complex also includes two facilities run by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation. The most visible of these is the Space Mirror Memorial, a huge black granite mirror through-engraved with the names of all astronauts who died in the line of duty. These names are constantly illuminated from behind, with natural light when possible, and artificial light when necessary. The glowing names seem to float in a reflection of the sky. Supplemental displays nearby give the details of the lives and deaths of the astronauts memorialized. Elsewhere on the Visitor Complex grounds is the Foundation's Center for Space Education, which includes a resource center for teachers, among other facilities.
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