Apollo 11 Visit - Kai and Kenny and me - Fifty years later


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In the rocket garden at the Kennedy Space Center. Here Kenny is examining the insides of a Gemini two-seat spacecraft mockup prior to entering it.
Kai and Kenny in the rocket garden at Kennedy Space Center, walking in the cool shade of the Saturn 1-B, which was the first launch vehicle to test-fly the Apollo lunar hardware.
Although it was dwarfed by colossal size of the Saturn V, the Saturn 1-B is an imposing thing nonetheless, and the realization that it could hurl every bit of the considerable bulk of hardware looming above Kai and Kenny to a velocity of five miles per second, gives ample testimony to the tremendous power that it held.
Kai and Kenny: Apollo crewmembers.
Kenny piloting the one-seat Mercury Capsule mockup in the rocket garden at Kennedy Space Center.
Kai and Kenny at the Thor-Able.
It is so very hot beneath the July Florida sun. Kai adjusts Kenny's hat.
Kai and Kenny relax in front of the F-1 engine. The F-1 is the engine that sent the Saturn V on its way toward the moon. If you had something that weighed a million pounds, this engine, all by itself, could lift it off of the ground and into the sky with ease. Imagine that. It has been a long day, marveling once again at the wonders arrayed all around them at the Kennedy Space Center. It is time now to go back home. Kai and Kenny enjoyed their trip very much, and they hope you enjoyed seeing these pictures, and they thank you for coming along to share this little bit of their experience with them
The rockets in the rocket garden are real flight hardware. They seem to strain toward the sky. It is their home, and they belong there.

 

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