Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: NASA tours? Message-ID: <1990Jul27.015637.22273@cbnews.att.com> Date: 27 Jul 90 01:56:37 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer Yes, you can tour KSC. Go to the Visitors' Center as soon as you get there and get your tickets. The tour, like the Visitor's Center, is run by a contractor (PanAm? that's who it was a few years ago). The tour, which is a (live) narrated bus trip, with photo opportunities, is very popular. I don't know how much it costs, but it's not outrageous. The Visitors' Center has a big gift shop and admission is free. If a member of your party is handicapped and cannot ride on the bus, they will detail a bus driver to drive your car and you'll have your own tour. (My husband needed this service and it worked very nicely.) At JSC, the tour consists of a self-paced, tape-narrated walk (i.e. they give you a cassette and player and you walk all around the Center. Watch out for the restricted areas; they enforce these zealously. I think you get the tapes at the Visitors' Center, which is in the Main Cafeteria. I don't know about a charge, but there may be a reasonable one. At Ames-Dryden, there's a guided tour twice a federal work day. Free. Includes an explanatory video and hangar tour. Planes include the SR-71, B-52, F-18, F-15, and assorted others, depending on the flight schedule. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot