11-27-2016, 01:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Needville and Shiner, TX
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Originally Posted by stefanj
The visitor's center at Cape Canaveral has a dumbed-down tourist front end (with the notable exception of the Rocket Garden), but once you get on the bus to the launch pads and the Saturn V display, things get a lot more serious.
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Agree with you there... I took Keira through the "robotic gallery" display at KSC Visitor's Center, looking forward to teaching her the proud history of robotic exploration, from the early Mariners, Rangers, and Lunar Surveyors to the Pioneers, Voyagers, and Mars Rovers... Instead it was full of "make believe" stuff with Tom Servo than Sojourner or Opportunity... Which I found to be IMMENSELY disappointing. There is enough of a REAL, PROUD history of NASA unmanned robotic exploration without having to resort to cheap, fake fluff...
At any rate, it's the sort of thing I've come to expect from the NASA Visitor Centers... sadly enough...
Later! OL J R 
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