Apollo-Saturn V Center

Other than the Rocket Garden, one of the main attractions at KSC is the Apollo/Saturn V Center. It houses a Saturn V, an unflown Command/Service Module (CSM), and an unflown Lunar Module. When I visited, it also housed the flown Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) command module, although that moved to Los Angeles during the summer of 2005 (I understand that Apollo 14 was relocated from the Astronaut Hall of Fame in the summer of 2009).

Whoever designed the Apollo/Saturn V Center sure got it right: The bus drops the visitor off outside a "lobby theater", which features a slide show of the early Space Race, highlighting Soviet successes and American failures. After the slide show concludes, the visitor is swept into a mockup of a launch control center (LCC) firing room, featuring a movie about Apollo 8. Once the movie is done, doors open and the visitor is deposited at the business end of the Saturn V.

Aerial view.