Located on Merritt Island, the KSC has been NASA’s primary launch site for human space flight since 1968. Apollo, Skylab and the Shuttle missions were conducted at the site, and especially at Launch Complex 39 (LC-39). Made up of three separate launch sub-complexes, LC-39A, LC-39B and LC-39C, and built for the powerful Saturn V rocket, LC-39A was the launch site for Apollo 11 and the first and last Space Shuttle missions. Today, the historic LC-39A is leased to SpaceX, and already has continued to write much more space exploration history from the launch complex.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the perfect place to immerse yourself in the history of the space program through exhibits, tours, displays, shows, presentations, and plenty of spacecraft and memorabilia. Your first impression might just be the enormity of all the rocket hardware that left earth’s gravity, and if lucky enough, you just may be around for a current rocket launch.