Ahead of attending last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational we decided on paying a visit to the Kennedy Space Centre located directly east of Orlando at Cape Canaveral.

The Kennedy Space Centre is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Florida.

The Centre has been the launch site for every NASA human space flight since 1968, and although such flights have been put on hold, the Centre still conducts unmanned rocket launches.

The Kennedy Space Center was created and has evolved to meet the changing needs of America’s manned space program, initially in competition with the Soviet Union after being authorized in 1958 during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Then in 1961 President John F. Kenneday declared the US goal of a lunar landing before 1970 and that led to an expansion of NASA operations.

Of course, Kennedy tragically didn’t live to see that goal come to fruition but there is a marvellous reminder of Kennedy as soon as you enter the visitor’s centre.  (See photographs below)

The visitor’s centre offers a fascinating insight into the history of manned and unmanned flights into space while the Vehicle Assembly Building is believed to be the fourth-largest structure in the world by volume.

Hereunder is some photographs from our visit to the Kennedy Space Centre.

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