On our Kennedy Space Center tour with transportation, you'll be over the moon with this amazing look at the science and history of the space program. Find out what it feels like to walk on the moon through a special IMAX screening, meet an astronaut and so much more! Walk underneath the Space Shuttle Atlantis, experience the Shuttle Launch Experience to see what a launch feels like, or explore the new "Gateway" facility that focuses on the future of space travel. There's something for everyone on this Kennedy Space Center tour!
Feel the liftoff with a Shuttle launch experience
Touch a piece of real moon rock
Stroll through the Rocket Garden
Walk under the Saturn V rocket
Discover the Space Shuttle Atlantis
Explore "Gateway" - fly into the future and discover what will happen in space travel
Mobile and printed vouchers are accepted
Total duration of the tour: 10 hours.
Restrictions
If your scheduled date becomes a rocket launch, please contact us, as regular packages may not be permitted (depending on the launch).
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Bring a camera to capture all the gorgeous views!
Visitors may bring backpacks and soft coolers into the visitor complex. Food and drinks packaged in small soft coolers are permitted. Glass bottles or containers are not permitted. Beer is for sale at select locations and no outside alcoholic beverages are permitted.
For security reasons, all bags are subject to search.
We have meeting locations throughout the tourist corridors of Orlando, Lake Buena Vista and Kissimmee, including the Disney and Universal areas. Please arrive at the meeting location at least 5-10 minutes before the departure time. Please wait outside the meeting point as Guides will not enter lobbies or stores to look for guests.
Itinerary
Be part of history in the making as you explore the ins and outs of the Kennedy Space Center on this out-of-this-world tour. You'll have access to restricted areas on the complex bus tour, walk underneath the massive Saturn V rocket, and even hear from a space hero at the astronaut meet and greet.
One of the many highlights of your day will be the Shuttle Launch Experience, a space simulator that will give you a taste of what astronauts experience when they take off. You'll also be able to see IMAX films, which will give you a 3D look at what it's like to walk on the moon, and visit the Rocket Garden for a surreal experience surrounded by giant rocket "flowers."
Give yourself enough time to explore the Space Shuttle Atlantis! The world's most comprehensive Space Shuttle attraction, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's Space Shuttle Atlantis brings visitors face-to-face with the priceless Atlantis spacecraft as only astronauts have ever seen it before, with doors to the cargo compartment open as if floating in space. More than 60 interactive touch-screen experiences and high-tech simulators invite guests to "be the astronaut," bringing to life the people, passion and patriotism behind NASA's 30-year Space Shuttle program, as well as the complexity of the engineering marvel who created it. launched the Hubble Space Telescope and built the International Space Station (ISS). Guests can conduct a virtual EVA or extravehicular activity; practice docking to the ISS; extract cargo from payload hold; creates sonic booms and glides to landing on the reentry chute; experience the sensation of floating in space; explore a high-fidelity replica of the ISS; virtually couples Atlantis to the external tank; initiate a virtual chemical reaction to launch the shuttle; get an "X-ray view" of the interior of Atlantis; experience an orbital sunrise; strap in to the sights, sounds and sensations of a shuttle launch; take the helm in the shuttle cockpit and much more. This is the best expansion Kennedy Space Center has ever offered and gives you even more reason to visit.
New to explore is "Gateway": it opened in May 2022 and the facility explores the future of space travel, the Deep Space Launch Complex. Learn about current and future cutting-edge space exploration innovations from NASA and its commercial partners. Then enter the spaceport of the future and launch aboard one of four unforgettable journeys to distant worlds in an immersive journey. This is an attraction not to be missed.
The Kennedy Space Center Tour is an unmissable opportunity to feel like a real astronaut!
Be sure to take Gray Line transportation to the Kennedy Space Center - this tour is truly "out of this world"!