This is one small step for a man...:D
16th of March, 2013. Danijel Dadović came as closes to space exploration than he ever was before. Danijel visited Kennedy Space center! :D
Ever since I was a little child, I was fascinated with the exploration of space and all of the mysteries which it holds. From the moment I saw in our agenda that we will be visiting NASA, I was completely excited and couldn’t wait for this day to come!
We kicked off our visit with standard photo shooting next to the NASA logo and then went sightseeing. We had the privilege to see several important buildings, such as:
- Central Instrumentation Facility
- Crawler way
- KSC Headquarters Building Headquarters Building
- Launch Complex
- Launch Control Center
- Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities
- Operations and Checkout Building
- Vehicle Assembly Building–High Bay and Low Bay
During our ride through the enormous complex, we even saw couple of alligators chilling in the canals next to the road, which made our trip even more exhilarating.
In the exhibit area, we saw several rocket models that are true recreations of genuine ships that were launched in to the space. A-mazing! We even saw and touched a rock that was collected from the Moon itself! It is an understatement to say that I was super happy to be there!
We paid a visit to the Memorial Hall with a display of all of the astronauts that died during space related actions. One of them is Ronald McNair, an astronaut who died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. McNair Scholars program was named after this brave astronaut.
This entire experience left me over thrilled, full of positive impressions with the will, stronger than ever, to go to the space and become a member of the space crew! :)