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The Galaxy Center offers the only back-to-back twin IMAX theaters in the world, showcasing three exciting, large-format motion pictures on screens 5-1/2 stories tall!

L5: First City in Space is the first film to accurately depict a future space settlement through the use of real NASA footage and data.

The Dream Is Alive gives an insider’s view of the Space Shuttle program, and the thunderous sound system makes guests feel like they are standing on the launch pad during a Shuttle launch.

Mission to Mir shows how the world’s two greatest powers finally discovered the value of friendship, including never-before-seen footage from the Russian Space Station Mir.

Early Space Exploration Exhibit provides visitors with a comprehensive history of key missions that provided the foundation for our current space program. See the Hall of Discovery, Time Tunnel, and Mercury Mission Control Room.

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The Rocket Garden and outdoor exhibits contain authentic rockets and spacecraft. Younger visitors can explore the space playground, complete with a one-fifth scale Space Shuttle/Space Station gym. Explorer, a full-scale model of a Space Shuttle orbiter, features a walk-through exhibit of the crew compartment and cargo bay. Located next to this are full-scale solid rocket boosters, an external tank and a Launch Status Dome with live briefings. A moon rock and other historical exhibits on human space flight are on display in the Gallery of Space Flight exhibit hall. 

Apollo/Saturn V Center offers an inspirational and exhilarating look into the U.S. space program’s missions to the moon. Exhibits and films capture the excitement of building and testing the massive Saturn V rocket, the training of the astronauts, the triumphs and setbacks along the way, and the ultimate success of landing on the moon and returning safely to Earth. The centerpiece of the 100,000-square-foot complex is the 363-foot Saturn V rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built and one of only three moon rockets still in existence.

The Firing Room Theater recreates the atmosphere of the original firing room as it existed during the Apollo era. A pre-show draws guests into the drama of Apollo with a multi-screen presentation reflecting the energy and uncertainty of the lunar landing missions. The second theater, called the Lunar Surface Theater, dramatizes the significant moments of the flight of Apollo 11 when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked on the moon in 1969.

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The International Space Station Center features detailed full-scale re-creations of space station modules and other exhibits. Visitors also get an up-close glimpse inside the actual facility where NASA is processing the real components of the International Space Station.

In a walk-through exhibit, Robot Scouts highlight NASA’s unsung heroes, the unmanned planetary probes that paved the way for human space flight.

The film "Quest for Life" presents the ever-present need for humans to search for life in this galaxy and explore the unknown reaches of the universe.

Exploration in the New Millennium is a new exhibit that explores the journey of exploration from the Vikings’ discoveries of Greenland and Iceland to the Mars Viking Lander, the first U. S. probe to land on another planet in 1976.

LC39 Observation Gantry, located less than half a mile from Launch Pad 39A, stands 60 feet tall and gives bus-tour visitors a bird’s-eye view of KSC’s two Shuttle launch pads.