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Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-05-2017 01:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is planning a major expansion during the next five years, reports Florida Today.
Protze said the Visitor Complex is considering introducing "something that is even bigger than Atlantis" in the future that could offer visitors a chance to experience "six seconds of weightlessness" and "3G's" of gravitational force. That's the equivalent of three times the force of gravity that humans are normally experience on Earth, and equivalent to what an astronaut might experience during a launch.

That proposed Mars Deep Space attraction, which could open as early as 2021, would be located at the current site of the Visitor Complex's administration building, which would be relocated.

Protze also promises "something big" for the former Astronaut Hall of Fame building, which had its exhibits relocated to the main KSC Visitor Complex campus as part of Heroes & Legends.

"It will be something really enticing for our guests," Protze said, while playing it coy for the time being on what might go there.

Also mentioned, an expanded Astronaut Training Experience; an expanded "Lunch with an Astronaut" experience; more exhibits of space-flown vehicles, including a SpaceX Dragon capsule recently put on exhibit; turning the Launch Complex 39 observation gantry into an activity learning center and launch viewing center; and a redesign of the Visitor Complex's "Main Street" that will include updated building facades and a 46-foot-tall bus tour entrance gate that looks like a small version of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building.

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 02-05-2017 08:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They had a couple trial runs of Dinner with an Astronaut, which I haven't gone to but think it's nice if it were to continue. No trying to plan your day on what to see and when around the lunch — spend the whole day at KSCVC, do the last Astronaut Encounter, and cap off the day with a dinner with another astronaut.

pupnik
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posted 02-06-2017 03:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pupnik     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I recall reading a few years ago about a roller coaster proposal similar to what they described with several seconds of microgravity.

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