The Saturn V and Space Shuttle Tour🚀🌕

At regular intervals, a shuttle departs from the museum to show the outdoor areas and takes you to a huge hangar housing the Saturn V.

The Saturn V was the historic rocket used for the Apollo missions that took Americans to the Moon. It’s truly enormous, about 111 meters tall, the same height as the Statue of Liberty.

Inside the hangar, there is also a statue depicting the arrival of the Apollo 13 astronauts on the USS Iwo Jima after returning from the mission. The mission was supposed to land on the Moon, but was aborted due to an emergency on board.

The tour ends with a visit to the historic Space Shuttle, which you can actually go inside and explore.
It was a reusable spacecraft, used by NASA between 1981 to 2011. It could fly multiple times and was connected to external fuel tanks. This is the most iconic NASA space veichle and completed over 135 missions, including the two missions that tragically ended with the loss of two shuttles (Challenger and Columbia) and its crew.

The tour was incredible, despite the nearly 40°C heat!Read more