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Essay On Cape Canaveral

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On a cold and frosty morning in Cape Canaveral, Florida, thousands of people gathered to watch something one of a kind - something which they would never forget. Sitting on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, being lit up by huge xenon lights was an incredible flying machine. Its name was Discovery and today, it was destined to go to space aboard 2 million pounds of solid rocket fuel and 500,000 gallons of liquid gas. The location of the launch, Cape Canaveral is one of my most favorite places on earth.Cape Canaveral used to be a military missile launch site during WW2. After the program was discontinued, the 42 missile launch pads became an outdoor exhibit and 3 new launch pads were constructed for sending space shuttles into space. No wonder, …show more content…

The Kennedy space center had a lot of displays about aeronautics, like old WWII fighter planes and some of the world’s fastest planes. But they were famous for their space displays, which consisted of old rockets, launch pads, and old Extravehicular Mobility Units (Spacesuits).Out of all these displays, my most favorite display was the space shuttle display. It had so many facts about space shuttles and at the time, space shuttles were probably my most favorite thing. (A space shuttle is a machine that goes up like a rocket, but lands like a glider.) Even my favorite toy was a space shuttle plushie. I knew almost everything there is to know about space shuttles. I remember telling my dad facts about the space shuttle, “ The underbelly of the shuttle, which gets very hot during launch and landing was covered with thousands of individually numbered silica tiles. The parts that don’t get as hot were covered with Nomex felt fabric. Shuttles had very small wings which made the shuttle as aerodynamic as a brick. That’s why it’s affectionately referred to as a flying brick.” while he was driving us to the Kennedy space center for the

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