Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Science museum on Merritt Island
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| March 2022 | The Gateway attraction, subtitled 'The Deep Space Launch Complex', opened in the spring, featuring displays of space exploration hardware including a Falcon Heavy booster, Exploration Flight Test-1 capsule, and interactive exhibits about deep space exploration. |
| March 2021 | A Delta II launch vehicle was added to the Rocket Garden. |
| January 1 2021 | Planet Play attraction opened to the public, providing an immersive interactive space exploration-themed play area for children aged 2-12, featuring climbing structures, slides, interactive games, and light projections. |
| January 25 2020 | Michael T. Alsbury, a Scaled Composites pilot who died in the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise crash on October 31, 2014, became the first private astronaut added to the memorial. |
| July 2019 | Astronauts Memorial Foundation unanimously voted to include private astronauts on the memorial, expanding its scope to recognize contributions from private spaceflight crew members. |
| June 2019 | Therrin Protze, a visitor complex official, offered SpaceX placement for a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy booster in the Rocket Garden. Elon Musk expressed interest in the offer. |
| 2018 | Saturn IB rocket was restored in the Rocket Garden. |
| 2010 | A refurbished Titan II missile from the Air Force ICBM was rescued from the Arizona Boneyard and erected to replace a deteriorating mockup. |
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