Editing Kennedy Space Center (section)

=== Visitor complex ===
{{Main|Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex}}

[[File:KennedySpaceCentreVisitor'sCentreFrontGate.JPG|thumb|Gate to the KSC Visitor Complex in 2006; [[Space Shuttle Explorer|''Explorer'']], a [[Space Shuttle]] mock-up, is in the background]]

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by [[Delaware North]] since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight. Bus tours of KSC originate from here. The complex also includes the separate [[Apollo/Saturn V Center]], north of the VAB and the [[United States Astronaut Hall of Fame]], six miles west near [[Titusville, Florida|Titusville]]. There were 1.5&nbsp;million visitors in 2009. It had some 700 employees.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Amanda | last=Stratford | title=NASA's new image | url=http://www.app.com/article/A9/20100112/NEWS02/1120326/-1/SCIENCE| work=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida | pages= 1A | date=January 12, 2010 }}</ref>

It was announced on May 29, 2015, that the Astronaut Hall of Fame exhibit would be moved from its current location to another location within the Visitor Complex to make room for an upcoming high-tech attraction entitled "Heroes and Legends". The attraction, designed by Orlando-based design firm Falcon's Treehouse, opened November 11, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dean|first=James|title=KSC Visitor Complex introduces 'Heroes and Legends'|url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/29/ksc-visitor-complex-breaks-ground-on-major-new-attraction/28142981/|website=Florida Today|access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref>

In March 2016, the visitor center unveiled the new location of the iconic countdown clock at the complex's entrance; previously, the clock was located with a flagpole at the press site. The clock was originally built and installed in 1969 and listed with the flagpole in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in January 2000.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2016/3/1/countdown_clock_kennedy_space_center_moved.html| title=Iconic KSC countdown clock gets a new home| date=March 1, 2016| publisher=News 13| access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the [[Apollo program]], and the launch of Apollo 10 on May 18.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2019/may/event-apollo-10| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190408183633/https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2019/may/event-apollo-10| archive-date = April 8, 2019| title = Honoring Apollo 10 {{!}} Apollo Program 50th Anniversary Celebrations}}</ref> In summer of 2019, [[Lunar Module]] 9 (LM-9) was relocated to the [[Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex|Apollo/Saturn V Center]] as part of an initiative to rededicate the center and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program.