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Re: Visits to KSC and launches

#9187
From: "REB - Tennessee Lamb"
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 15:37
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In article <692@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> francis@chook.ua.oz (Francis Vaughan) writes:
>There are two tours, the red and the blue. One takes you down the cape
>and shows you such unforgettable things as the launch control bunker for
>the Explorer shots. Outside this is a lawned area covered is old missiles
>and small rockets and interesting junk. They let you have ten minutes to
>see it. TEN MINUTES!! you can't even do justice to one exhibit in that
>time. As the bus left I saw a V-1 and V-2 for the first time out of the
>window. I had not enough time to walk completly around the lawn to even
>glance at the exhibits.

I remember that one time I was there a couple of years ago they had  a special
do-it-yourself tour one day a week.  I happened to be there the right  day ;-)
I don't remember the details, but you basically got a map and  were allowed to
go around and look at some of the old launch pads at your own leisure.
                                        reb
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Subject: Re: Visits to KSC and launches
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