Have you ever visited space flight-related facilites?

[TheClockIsRunning!]

If you have, I'd love to see photos that you took.
I've been to Kennedy Space Center several times,
as well as Johnson Space Center. Very cool stuff.
Try as I might have, I could not gain access to all
of the places that I wanted...b-)

http://www.spacecenter.org/images/RestrictedArea.jpg
Though I was in Houston and visited this site, this photo was not taken
by me. I have some great shots, and will try to post them soon...

[cb400bill]

When I was a young teen, around 1974 or 75, I got to tour Cape Kennedy as part of a Civil Air Patrol cadet program. We were there during the Apollo-Soyuz program.

We got to see tour original launch building with its very thick concrete walls and windows. We got to walk thru the doors of the Assembly Building and saw a full Saturn V rocket sitting in a corner wrapped in plastic. We also got to climb up on, and look inside of, an Apollo-Soyuz training vehicle.

The Air Force put us up in the Visiting Officer's Quarters. We got to eat in the Officer's Mess. We were allowed to purchase souvenirs and such in the base PX.

One of our chaperons was an interesting gentleman. His name was Don Chaffee, father of astronaut Roger B Chaffee.

I don't have any here to post but I have some old photos somewhere in my parents house.

[Schirra]

To visit a NASA facility is one of my dream from when I was young.
I hope to to go the next year... just let me collect all the money I need!!!!

;-)

[Dieselweasel]

In the past I visited the

- Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html

- Radio Telescope Effelsberg, Germany
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/effelsberg/

- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
http://www.nasm.si.edu/

And, if his also counts ;-), I've been around
- Groom Lake, Nevada, USA (Area 51, Nellis AFB)
- Rachel, Nevada, USA (Highway 375, Extraterrestrial Highway)
- Roswell, New Mexico, USA
howbeit I never had the chance for a deeper look ;-)

Unfortunately, although it's "just around the corner" from my home, there seems to be no possibility to visit the ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

Cheers, Ralf

[Strela]

I also have been to the Smithsonian. Both were great experiances.

I did not take any photos of the Smithsonian A-S, and the trip to Kennedy would have been shot on super 8 film, as was my parents common practice during this time. I still have the souvenir book I got on my visit to Kennedy though.

I will try to track it down, and scan some pics. I thumbed through it a few years back looking for any watch pics, and can remember seeing any though.:-(

[DragonJade]

I wanted to do Space Camp when I was a kid. Still think about it sometimes...
There was a computer game back around 1991 called something like the Space Shuttle Simulator for the Atari ST(not sure what other platforms they made it for). Apparently they went to NASA and got all the info straight from them in building the simulator. The manual must have been an inch thick.

[TheClockIsRunning!]

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Here's a shot of a CSM on display at KSC,
along with a photo of my son walking across an
actual Apollo era gantry used originally on Pad 39-A
for Saturn V crew entry/egress. Lastly, a shot of the
"rocket park" at KSC...