Miles Traveled 10.4
Total Miles Traveled 2591
Days 190-193
On our first full day at Merritt Island, we took a family
cruise out of the barge canal to the Banana River. Before entering the Banana River, we passed a
space shuttle sitting on a barge.
"Inspiration," a full-scale space shuttle model
that for two decades stood along the state road leading into NASA's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida, rolled, and then floated away on Saturday (Jan. 16),
beginning its journey towards becoming a traveling exhibit and marketing showpiece.
The 122-foot-long mockup, which at one time housed a theater and simulator, left its mount outside the former Space Camp Florida and U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame facility in Titusville. Riding on a multi-wheeled transporter to a barge about a half mile away on the shore of the Indian River, the "Inspiration" left on a four hour trip across the water to a Beyel Brothers Crane and Rigging's work yard on Merritt Island, where it will spend upwards of a year being repaired and upgraded for its new mission.
The company will be outfitting the Inspiration with a
state-of-the-art theater and touring it, atop a barge, up and down America's
rivers to bring the 120-foot-long mock-up to areas where people may have never
seen a shuttle up-close and in-person. This
will allow people to see, take pictures and experience it.
After taking a slow pass by the shuttle, we cruised up and
down the Banana River.
Brother Dean is on pirate lookout.
We could see a couple of cruise ships at Port Canaveral.
We ended the day with a pizza party at downtown Cocoa……….Happy Birthday Mike!
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