Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Kennedy Space Center

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I earned 5 hours for action for this activity as I visited the Kennedy Space Center on December 28th. Not only did did my family purchase annual passes again, but as a Christmas present to my dad, we had dinner with an astronaut. This is where you are provided dinner and an astronaut gives a speech about their space travels and answers questions from the audience. The Space Shuttle astronaut we had discussed his three flight missions to the International Space Station. This was an interesting experience and learned a lot about Space Shuttle travel.
Yet, before this, my family and I explored the new exhibit called Heroes and Legends. We planned out the day as we had a limited amount of time to visit the exhibits before dinner. We planned to

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