The Cape Canaveral Space Museum displayed models of all kinds of old and new rockets, such as Atlas, God of Thunder, God of Strength, and Jupiter. Its more than seventy rocket exhibits represented every stage of rocket technology's development.
Likewise, it was part of the Kennedy Space Center's exhibition facilities.
The Kennedy Space Center had originally been Launch Complex 39 at Cape Canaveral. It was separated out in 1962 and transferred from the Air Force to NASA.
But NASA had been created in response to the Soviet Union's aerospace forces, not for any peaceful use of space. It had been established to compete for ownership of low Earth orbit, and its projects included anti-satellite weapons, manned spacecraft, and the Star Wars Program.
Most of its personnel came from the Air Force, so separating the Kennedy Space Center from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was essentially just moving something from one hand to the other. There was no real difference.
A little over ten kilometers north of Steve and the others' current location was the Kennedy Space Center, where there was a visitor center that welcomed tourists from around the world.
It had two theaters, a Galileo Space Flight Museum, a Wetlands nature preserve, as well as gift shops, cafeterias, Rocket Park, ticket sales and information areas, and other facilities to make things convenient for visitors to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Its museum contained exhibits from the Mercury Program, Gemini Program, and Apollo Program, including a 1:10 model of Saturn V, the Gemini 9 Spacecraft, a Lunar Rover, spacesuits, moon rocks, and scale models of Skylab and the space shuttle.
The visitor center also provided free tour buses to transport tourists between the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After all, this