And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits ...

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress for NASA was far from ordinary - she was one of the "sisters" who sewed the blankets on the space shuttle.

It is the same one used by the last NASA astronauts to launch from American soil, the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew ... including the Apollo 11 lunar landing. That exclusivity will end eventually ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 (while Michael Collins famously remained in orbit).