Walking into the new experience at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is like a gateway to the future of space exploration.
Look down, and moon craters are under your feet. In front of you, NASA’s Orion spacecraft zooms around the moon. Quickly, that all dissolves, and you’ll see the James Webb Space Telescope or Mars or a distant galaxy.
"You can see it's still charred up on the thermal protection tiles, similar to the space shuttle," Bohnsack said, adding Orion also has an added heat shield. "When you return from the moon, it's gonna be much, much hotter, so it's going to get up to 25,000 mph and get 1,000 degrees hotter than the space shuttle."
RL10 Engineer Daimon Clarett estimates the RL10 engine has launched on over 350 missions since the 1970s. Next, peer into a LIFE habitat - an inflatable mini space station. Sierra Space is partnering with Blue Origin to build a private space station called the Orbital Reef using LIFE and other modules.
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