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Copy transcribed from a 1986 brochure picked up at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral (Florida), a brochure found among a mountain of maps while cleaning out the trunk of my old car, as left over from my mother's packrat tendencies.

One small step...to history in the making!

SEE-IT-ALL GUIDED TOURS

Make your visit a lifetime memory! Take a guided bus tour featuring live/taped narration and camera stops. And for years to come, as you watch historic launches on TV you can say "I've been there."

On the RED TOUR you may (operations permitting)...
-Experience a simulated Apollo 11 moon launch countdown from the site where all the Apollo astronauts trained; inspect a Saturn V rocket that stretches more than 300 feet, and see the enourmous Vehicle Assembly Building (one of the world's largest buildings);
-See massive 6 million pound Crawler Transporters that carry Space Shuttles to their launch pads; and...
-Take a look at the pads where ALL the Apollo moon missions were launched and ALL Space Shuttles lift off.

On the BLUE TOUR you'll...
-Visit Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where the history of the early space program unfolds for you; (operations permitting) you may...
-See the sights where the first astronauts were launced in the Mercury and Gemini programs;
-Discover a host of current launch pads used for various scientific, commercial and military missions, and you may visit the Air Force Space Museum with it's one-of-a-kind collection of early Air Force rockets and space memorabilia, and see the old mission control building.

Tours available for a modest fee. We recommend buying your tickets early to reserve your space for scheduled tours.
Please remember...you'll be touring an actual working space center, so your itenerary is subject to change due to launch preparations and other activities. But you will get a view of things not open to the general public, and you can take pictures.

Allowing pictures? Averages joes inspecting rockets? State-of-the-art equipment assembly open for all to view? A modest fee? This had to be written post-glasnost.


I am ready to leave work now, ok?