Learn Celebrate The Kennedy Infinite Center’S 50Th Birthday Amongst Street View

For 50 years, NASA's Kennedy Space Center inwards Florida has been the launch signal for a generation of infinite applied scientific discipline as well as exploration. Countless enthusiasts (including this one) grew upwards longing to run into a space shuttle upwards closed as well as walk inwards the paths of astronauts. Today, a collaboration betwixt NASA as well as Street View is enabling people or as well as so the footing to stimulate got a trip to the doorway to outer space, as well as run into Kennedy every bit it transitions into a multipurpose launch complex for the side yesteryear side 50 years of infinite innovation. This location is our largest particular collection of Street View imagery to date, totaling 6,000 panoramic views of the facilities, as well as expanding our mission to document the world’s nigh amazing places.

Street View fleet at Kennedy Space Center

Among the images you lot tin straight off explore online amongst the click of your mouse are the space shuttle launch pad, Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Firing Room #4. Gaze downward from the top of the enormous launch pad, peer upwards at the towering ceiling of the Vehicle Assembly Building (taller than the Statue of Liberty) as well as instruct upwards closed to i of the space shuttle’s primary engines, which is powerful plenty to generate 400,000 lbs of thrust. From these advantage points, anyone tin alive out his or her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut.

Atlantis Orbiter inwards the Vehicle Assembly Building - View Larger Map

Saturn V rocket on display inwards the Apollo/Saturn V see - View Larger Map

Even though they of late entered retirement, you lot tin nonetheless instruct an up-close, immersive sense amongst 2 of the Space Shuttle Orbiters—the Atlantis as well as Endeavour —with Street View.

We’d similar to give cheers NASA for making this projection possible as well as giving all of us the endangerment to digitally walk inwards the shoes of all of the pioneering astronauts, scientists, engineers as well as technicians that made our infinite dreams possible. To explore to a greater extent than of our largest particular collection yet, see our Street View gallery at maps.google.com/nasa.

Posted yesteryear Ryan Falor, Product Manager, Google Street View