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Fly With An Astronaut

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

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  • Friday, Aug 21
  • Saturday, Aug 22
  • Sunday, Aug 23
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August 2026 3 dates
  • Friday, Aug 21
  • Saturday, Aug 22
  • Sunday, Aug 23

Fly With An Astronaut Experience

Join a veteran NASA astronaut on their journey in what it took for them to become an astronaut and let them be your guide behind the gates of Kennedy Space Center.

A catered lunch will be provided back at the main visitor complex where your astronaut guide will reflect on their personal accounts and experiences followed by a question and answer session with the group. You will also receive a special pin before moving on to the next part of your experience.

Next, you will enter Space Shuttle Atlantis® for a guided tour and a private viewing of the pre-shows The Flight and Coming Home. Then, board the Shuttle Launch Experience® to feel what it’s like to launch into space on a shuttle traveling 17,500 mph, accompanied by a veteran NASA astronaut!

At the end of the tour, approximately 2:15 PM, continue on to a waiting bus to tour the Apollo/Saturn V Center on your own.

To learn more about this exciting experience, please click here.

Astronaut Tour Guide

Headshot of astronaut Woody Spring in blue flight suit holding a model of the space shuttle in front of the U.S. flag

Woody Spring

  • Colonel, USA, Ret.

  • NASA Astronaut (Former)

Sherwood “Woody” Spring received a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1967. After graduation, Spring served two tours of duty in Vietnam. The first was from 1968 to 1969 with the 101st Airborne Division. The second tour, 1970-1971, came immediately after flight school and was served as a helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry Division. He then earned a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1974 and graduated from the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School in 1976.

Mr. Spring was selected as an astronaut in May 1980. Spring served as a mission specialist on STS-61B in 1985 when he was responsible for launching three communications satellites and performed two extravehicular activities (EVAs). The EVAs, totaling more than 12 hours, investigated space station construction techniques, large structure manipulation while on the end of the remote arm and a time and motion study for comparison between Earth training and space performance. With the completion of STS-61B he logged a total of 165 hours in space.

He was on the Tiger Team for the Challenger accident, which occurred six weeks after his own flight. Following the Challenger accident, Mr. Spring was selected to lead the Army’s Space Program Office. He attended the Defense Systems Acquisition Management Program, and then managed a classified program that brings National Satellite based intelligence directly to the battlefield.

Spring retired from NASA in August 1988, earning many awards and medals throughout his career. He is currently a professor of Engineering, Test and Evaluation, plus Science and Technology Management at the Defense Acquisition University San Diego Campus.

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Fly With An Astronaut includes a one-day admission ticket in the pricing. There is no need to purchase a separate admission ticket.