Days Like This by Amanda Kennedy
This year my family went on vacation to Florida. While there we visited the Kennedy space centre. The Kennedy space centre is named after he 35th president of the United States of America, John. F Kennedy because he was the currant president at the time
when the centre was established and it was his dream for an American citizen to be the first person to visit the moon.
While I was there I learnt innumerable new facts about the exploration of space. I had never thought about the effort and determination put in to making it possible and the numerous people who helped make the dream of space exploration a reality. My family and I went on a guided bus tour round the compound that had three destinations. The first destination was the launch viewing gallery that was 10 storeys high and gave a view of the entire space station. There was a scheduled launch that day but it had been postponed due to a water leakage in the space craft. Due to the vast number of people who turned up unaware of the cancellation the place was very busy.
The second destination on the tour was an insightful recreation of the control centre in Houston, Texas used for the first moon landing. This gave me a great insight to the complexity of the first moon landings particularity because of the need to develop new communications and control computers especially for the Apollo missions. When we exited the mock control centre we were led in to a hail which contained a replica of an Apollo space rocket. The Apollo space rocket was massive the hall must have been several hundred feet in length. Also in the hall was a model of the vehicle used on the moon to allow the astronauts to move around on the moon.
In conclusion I feel I gained an insight in the difficulties the Americans had in being able to send a human being to the moon.
