"We choose to go to the moon". With these words JF Kennedy started in 1962 the moon program of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a reaction on the space race with Russia. And if you align the noses of all the smart engineers in this country into one direction, the impossible is possible.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." With these words Neil Armstrong ended the race in 1969, when he stepped on the moon. If Kennedy would have been able to see that...I am not the nerdy space fan, but o-boy do I love this stuff.
And here at Cape Kennedy Space Center, Nasa got the task to make all this happening and I pay them a visit.I learn about the Apollo project and its rocket boosters. Being a nerd I can see how 1 million 10 um mirrors can all flip at the same time, and I can see how 1 rocket is launched to the moon. But that fact that there are these people, strapping themselves on top of this immense reservoir of explosive and then light it up, is insane.
I stand in front of an original control center.
I look up to a moon lander.
I touch a stone from the moon.
The moon is past and will be future again with the Constellation project, when Nasa wants to use the moon as a stepping stone to explore space beyond. At the moment however the International Space Station (ISS) is assembled and this is how it works:The 6 Space Shuttles (Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour) are the transport crafts to bring a module and a new crew to ISS.
In the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Shuttle is mounted to its rocket.
The combination is then transported along the crawlerway in a couple hrs to the launch complex.
Here the combination is mounted on its platform. 
The Shuttle (in this case Endeavour) is shielded off and there it stands for another month.
One of the last days, the ISS module (in this case Node 3 from the European Space Agency), is placed inside the Shuttle. 
And then on February 7, 2010 the Space shuttle Endeavour will bring Node 3 and the Cupola to the ISS. Oh so cooollll....Dag,
Iris (Cape Kennedy, 29777 miles)
