A Kiwi’s Journey: September 2010

Miami

The Texas de Brazil Churrascaria at The Dolphin Mall.

The “south beach” on Key Biscayne.

The sea water is not just warm, it is hot!

“The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the U.S. government installation that manages and operates America's astronaut launch facilities. Serving as the base for the country's three space shuttles, the NASA field center also conducts unmanned civilian launches from adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (operated by the 45th Space Wing). KSC has been the launch site for every U.S. human space flight since December 1968. Its iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is the fourth-largest structure in the world by volume[1] and was the largest when completed in 1965.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center

The view from the Kennedy Space Center lookout tower towards the Vehicle Assembly Building with the Crawlerway stretching to the right towards Pads 39A and 39B.

The crawlerway splits, heading left to Pad 39B and right to Pad 39A.

Launch Pad 39B.

Saturn V First Stage Rocket

Saturn V Second Stage Rocket

Apollo Service Module (left) and Command Module (right).

The Apollo 14 Command Module.

20100828 242 Inside a replica of the Space Shuttle cargo bay.

Epcot

“Epcot is an acronym of (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney. Disney's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization. Disney's vision was not realized as funding and permission to start work on his Florida property was unable to be obtained until he agreed to build the Magic Kingdom first. Disney died before the Magic Kingdom opened and the Walt Disney Company decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epcot