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Explore America's space heritage with an awe-inspiring tour of Kennedy Space Center.

Located on the east coast of Florida approximately midway between Jacksonville and Miami, KSC represents a marriage of technology and nature at its best. Kennedy Space Center shares its property with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and in 1975, nearly half of the Space Center was designated by Congress as part of the Canaveral National Seashore.

You can witness history in the making as NASA plans and prepares for returning humans to the Moon and sending robotic explorers deep into our galaxy. See real Moon rocks & rockets used to launch man and machine into Space.

Attend inspiring Astronaut Encounter briefings with actual NASA Astronauts - one of the few people who have been to space. View 10-story high rockets from all eras of space exploration in the Rocket Garden, walk through a full-size Space Shuttle mock-up, see IMAX space films on gigantic 5-story screens, & see an actual Gemini program capsule on display in Early Space Exploration.

If you time your visit just right, you can even see the actual space shuttle roaring into the heavens towards another rendezvous with the future.

 

Note: The following information was accurate at the time of posting, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.

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25th anniversary of Tinker Bell's pre-fireworks flight at Magic Kingdom

After Magic Kingdom Park opened in 1971, many guests asked when and where they could see Tinker Bell take flight. At the time, Tinker Bell had been flying over Disneyland Park in California since the summer of 1961, coasting through the skies from the top of the Matterhorn and over Sleeping Beauty Castle, preceding the park's Fantasy in the Sky fireworks show. But, she had yet to make an appearance in Florida.
It wasn't until 1985 that guests at the Walt Disney World Resort finally got their wish and it was announced that Tinker Bell would perform her first flight at Magic Kingdom Park. The guest response was immediate and a crowd of more than 60,000 showed up to watch the fairy's inaugural flight July 3, 1985.
Originally planned as a seasonal and holiday spectacle for our theme park, the response was so positive that Tinker Bell's flight turned into a nightly event that continues to this day.
Tinker Bell currently makes her nightly appearance at the end of the Summer Nightastic! Fireworks Spectacular. In the middle of the fireworks, she appears near the top of Cinderella Castle and flies a distance of 850 feet into Tomorrowland. Her trip takes less than 30 seconds.

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