Another beautiful day, not as hot, still sunny. My kind of weather! Breakfast was at the hotel, not crowded, a
nd pretty good. I like the make your own waffles. We hopped in the car to make our way to NASA. After holding our breath because we were not sure the car was going to start! The rental car, ahhh the rental car......what fun that thing was. Smelled funny, but the guess was if it was going to start, as there were times when we just didn't think it would. And this day gave us our biggest question mark! It did start, so we took bets as to if it would start when we returned from our cruise! Finally making it to NASA, we saw the 3D IMax movie on the Making of the International Space Station. It is amazing to me how brave those men and women are that go into space. The grounds of NASA were beautiful, and lucky for us, not crowded. We sat in on a speech from
Astronaut Bob Springer, and were able to meet him afterwards. He has been up the ISS twice. We did the Shuttle Experience, which simulated what it 
would be like during takeoff on the shuttle. It was neat, but I doubt it even came close to what it would really be like. We then took the bus tour to the Apollo/Saturn Center, which held memorabelia and mock-ups of rooms and how they may have looked when man first walked on the moon and you were watching from you living room TV. It also had the entire control room from that was used that day. The original room, from monitors to chairs, to phones. Everything. It was a real interesting place, and I look forward to going 
back and spending more time visiting and taking it all in. And being there, right after the last Space Shuttle Launch, knowing that program was ending, gave it a lot more meaning. The Space Shuttle landed after we were back home, so unfortunately we missed both the launch and the landing. But hope to return someday to see a whole new program being launched.
nd pretty good. I like the make your own waffles. We hopped in the car to make our way to NASA. After holding our breath because we were not sure the car was going to start! The rental car, ahhh the rental car......what fun that thing was. Smelled funny, but the guess was if it was going to start, as there were times when we just didn't think it would. And this day gave us our biggest question mark! It did start, so we took bets as to if it would start when we returned from our cruise! Finally making it to NASA, we saw the 3D IMax movie on the Making of the International Space Station. It is amazing to me how brave those men and women are that go into space. The grounds of NASA were beautiful, and lucky for us, not crowded. We sat in on a speech from
Astronaut Bob Springer, and were able to meet him afterwards. He has been up the ISS twice. We did the Shuttle Experience, which simulated what it 
would be like during takeoff on the shuttle. It was neat, but I doubt it even came close to what it would really be like. We then took the bus tour to the Apollo/Saturn Center, which held memorabelia and mock-ups of rooms and how they may have looked when man first walked on the moon and you were watching from you living room TV. It also had the entire control room from that was used that day. The original room, from monitors to chairs, to phones. Everything. It was a real interesting place, and I look forward to going 
back and spending more time visiting and taking it all in. And being there, right after the last Space Shuttle Launch, knowing that program was ending, gave it a lot more meaning. The Space Shuttle landed after we were back home, so unfortunately we missed both the launch and the landing. But hope to return someday to see a whole new program being launched.Cocoa Beach was where we decided to eat dinner. After driving around a bit, we found the pier and a beachy bar/grill for dinner. I can't remember the name of the place we ate, but the food was great! We walked on the beach for just a bit, there were these funny red jelly fish on the sand and in the water so we didn't go further than our ankles. It was a nice ending for a great day. In the back of my mind, I knew we would be boarding our cruise the next day, and the excitement was mounting.
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