Florida's Space Coast is the proud home of the U.S. Space Program and NASA's Kennedy Space Center Complex. Visitors from Australia to Zaire flock to the Kennedy Space Center area to see spectacular shuttle launches at the only place in the United States that blasts man into outer space.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers a "Launch Viewing Opportunity Ticket" which provides transportation to the KSC viewing site 7 miles from the shuttle pads. When you are that close, you see it, hear it, and feel it! For details, call (321) 449-4444.

Unable to land a viewing ticket, the best viewing sites for the general public include: along the shores of the Indian River in Downtown Titusville, U.S. Space Walk of Fame, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, the Cocoa Beach Pier or any of the beaches south of Port Canaveral along the Space Coast.

For details on space shuttle launch schedules, call(321) 867-4636.

Launch Schedule
Launch Date	Launch Time	Vehicle	Mission
September, 26, 2008	T.B.A.	Delta 4-H • NROL-26	The United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket.
October, 8, 2008	1:30 a.m.	Shuttle Atlantis • HST Servicing	STS-125 will be the fifth and final space shuttle mission launched to service and upgrade the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. STS-125 will be the fifth and final space shuttle mission launched to service and upgrade the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
October, 10, 2008	8:22 - 9:33 p.m.	Atlas 5 • WGS SV 2	The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (AV-016) will launch the second Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft, formerly known as the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite. Built by Boeing, this geostationary communications spacecraft will serve U.S. military forces. The rocket will fly in the 421 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, two solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.
November, 10, 2008	9:28 p.m.	Shuttle Endeavour • ISS ULF2	STS-126 will be the 27th U.S. mission to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver equipment and supplies with a reusable Multi-Purpose Logistics Module
November, 13, 2008	T.B.A.	Delta II - United Launch Alliance	STSS Demonstrators Program is a midcourse tracking technology demonstrator and is part of an evolving ballistic missile defense system. STSS is capable of tracking objects after boost phase and provides trajectory information to other sensors and interceptors. To be launched by NASA for the Missile Defense Agency.
November, 24, 2008	3:44 a.m.	Atlas 5 • LRO	The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to the moon and a lunar impactor secondary payload called the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. The rocket will fly in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.
February, 16, 2009	noon	Delta II Kepler	The Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery mission, is specifically designed to survey our region of the Milky Way galaxy to detect and characterize hundreds of Earth-size and smaller planets in or near the habitable zone.