If you are in the vicinity of Kennedy Space Center, it is worth taking and day and going right now. There is a special tour available that started a couple of months ago and will end as soon as the Orion program picks up speed. This tour will take you inside the Vehicle Assembly Building which has never been allowed before. Right now the building is not in use. Sitting in it in one of the 4 Saturn V assembly bays is the orbiter Atlantis. It will go on permanent display in a year at the visitor center where a building is being constructed now. The VAB is so high that you could probably stack 30 orbiters on top of each other to reach the roof. As part of this tour, you will also drive to the shuttle launch pads and even go between the pads and the beach.

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