美国肯尼迪航天中心及其航天飞行（Kennedy Space Center and its space flight）.doc

美国肯尼迪航天中心及其航天飞行（Kennedy Space Center and its space flight） Driving from Orlando to the southeast, it takes about 45 minutes to get to Kennedy Space Center (KSC). It is located in Florida, Cape Canaveral, 55 km maximum distance from north to south, east to the 10 km wide, is important to the United States manned space center, has a variety of special equipment and facilities. However, it is not only the modern technology and human buildings, but also the original geographical environment and many wild animals and plants. The eagle circled on the head, near a brightly feathered birds foraging in the roadside swamps often float lazily crocodile, like a section of long abandoned wood. It turned out to be the largest endangered wild fauna and flora in the United states. Of course, people come here long distances, not to see the wild environment here, but attracted by the space industry here. On the flight to Kennedy Space Center photo building, space shuttle here and rocket propellant and together, and then sent to the launch pad. Space transportation system in the United States In January 5, 1972, President Nixon approved the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a reusable space flight system called the space shuttle. It is different from the rocket and spacecraft system, but not just the aircraft, but the entire space transport concept, its mission code is called STS (SpaceTransportationSystem), plus series number. For example, in July 23, 1999, for the first time, a flight named Aileen Collins served as commander in chief. The flight was named STS-93. NASA represents the United States government and is fully responsible for aerospace operations both at home and abroad. Space transportation system of the contract by the United States NASA Johnson Space Center in Dezhou Houston (JSC) is responsible for organizing the implementation, it is composed of four elements: an orbiter that is commonly known as the space shuttle, two sets of rocket boos