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Visitor tip
Save the Space Shuttle Atlantis building for last in your Kennedy Space Center visit - its massive scale and comprehensive exhibits wrap up the experience perfectly and leave a lasting impression
Visitor tip
Don't skip the upper gallery next to Atlantis - it contains crucial interactive mission exploration stations and provides different angles to experience the shuttle that many visitors miss
Visitor tip
Prioritize the re-entry slide experience and shuttle piloting simulators early in your visit, as these hands-on interactive exhibits tend to draw crowds throughout the day
Quick Facts
- Attraction
- Space Shuttle Atlantis
- Type
- Science Center
- Highlights
- 60+ interactive exhibits, shuttle simulators, spacewalk simulators, re-entry slide
- Shuttle Stats
- 33 flights, 126 million miles, 4,848 orbits (1985-2011)
What visitors say
My personal favorite part of the space center. You walk in with a short info about the shuttle program and continue and you see the crazy rocket. Every single things has even details written on the tabs. On the ground floor you can try…
While in the Cape Canaveral area after returning from a short cruise, we took the opportunity to go to the Kennedy Space Center. What a fun and informative day! There was so much to see and learn! Post cruise, we had planned on hitting…
I recommend saving this building for last. The huge scale of everything in this building is an experience in itself. It wraps up everything very nicely. I'd say there was about a 15 minute long presentation when you first enter, but its…
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Did You Know?
- Space Shuttle Atlantis is displayed at a 43.21-degree angle with payload doors open and Canadarm extended, allowing visitors to experience the spacecraft from all angles in a way never before possible in a museum setting
- The exhibition features interactive displays exploring all 135 Space Shuttle missions ever flown, making it a comprehensive archive of the entire shuttle program's history
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis building includes a Forever Remembered memorial dedicated to the 14 astronauts lost in the STS-51L Challenger and STS-107 Columbia disasters
More Family Fun Nearby
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