Justin
Seeing it All

We spent all day at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. We got to see a full size mock up of the shuttle called Explorer.

We saw SRBs or solid rocket boosters with the shuttles external tanks attached. We saw an actual Saturn V rocket that was built to go to the moon but was never launched. We saw Juno I and II rockets, Redstone rockets, Saturn IB rockets and many more.

We met Astronaut Rick Searfoss and got to take our pictures with him.

We saw the movie "The Dream is Alive". It was actually filmed by astronauts in space. It had a lot of cool pictures in it. We saw both launch pads and both crawlers. We got to learn tons about the parts that make up a Saturn V rocket.

It has three main stages that take it our of earthÕs gravity. We learned that the command module is the part that gets the astronauts to the moon. As each stage runs out of fuel it is separated and the next stages makes the command module go faster and faster. Once outside of EarthÕs gravity the Command module actually costs to the moon using the moonÕs gravity. I feel great finally understanding how we actually got to the moon and back.