Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering new and cool opportunities to get closer to space and history with two new bus tours:

Cape Canaveral Early Space Tour (Available Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday):  The American spirit comes to life.  Hear stories of the early days of space exploration while your family visits the very places where history was made. The journey begins at the Air Force Space & Missile Museum at Pad 26 on Cape Canaveral, famously the home of the first successful launch of a manmade satellite in the US. You will visit the site of the Mercury and Gemini launches, the launch pads along the ocean shore, John Glenn’s launch pad at Pad 14 Blockhouse, and the memorial site for the Apollo 1 crew.

Cape Canaveral Rise to Space Tour (Available Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for ages 14 and up): Access restricted and historic areas of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. During this tour, a space expert will lead you to historic launch sites, the Sands Space History Center, the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, and Hangar C – the first permanent and oldest surviving structure at the Cape built and used for missile assembly. Inside Hangar C, you will view artifacts like Atlas, America’s first intercontinental ballistic missile; the only known Firebird missile still in existence; and early space artifacts like Gemini and Apollo “boiler plates” that were used during simulations for training.

Tour tickets must be purchased at least 72 hours prior and you also need an entry ticket into the Space Center.  For security purposes, pre-registration is also required.