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August 25, 2012 1:09 PM

Google brings its Street View cameras into the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is their largest special Street View collection to date: 6000 panoramic images, including the Apollo 14 module, the Vehicle Assembly Building, Launch Firing Room #4 and Space Shuttle Orbiters Atlantis and Endeavour. Intro Video. (Via)

Other special Street View Collections. Don't miss Art Project.

posted by zarq (11 comments total)

Crap! I was trying to get stuff done this afternoon!

This looks wonderful, thank you.
posted by pymsical at 1:36 PM on August 25, 2012

That's really neat. I've used Google Maps to check out all kinds of places, like the YFZ Ranch in Texas and South Asia, and I wish I had Street View in more places.
posted by notashroom at 2:08 PM on August 25, 2012

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an Armstrong worth calling a hero
posted by philip-random at 2:16 PM on August 25, 2012

The VAB is ridiculous and on a scale that's sort of difficult to deal with, tbh. Living in big American cities makes you think you're used to huge buildings, and you mostly are, but they're surrounded by other huge buildings and it's no big deal. And then you see the VAB looming all on its own in the middle of a swamp and it already seems huge from far away, and then you get closer and it's this ridiculous monstrosity and then you get inside and oh my god it's EVEN HUGER SOMEHOW. And then you think about all the awesome things and people that have been inside of it and you have to sit down for a minute.


obvsly i wanna make it into my supervillain lair
posted by elizardbits at 2:31 PM on August 25, 2012

Thanks! New stuff to watch!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 5:15 PM on August 25, 2012

I accidentally discovered this last week when poking around KSC on Google Maps. I was looking at one of the crawler roads and thought "It'd be funny if they have street view here." I dragged the street view guy and was pleasantly surprised!
posted by zsazsa at 7:05 PM on August 25, 2012

Everyday I make my home as presentable as possible because I know at some point they're going to run out of streets and will start needing more things to observe with vans, and from that point it's about a year until a van is in my home during dead of night. And I'm going to be the only one who was ready, everyone else is going to look like shit.
posted by passerby at 7:38 PM on August 25, 2012 [1 favorite]

Wow, Black Mesa was actually pretty accurate...
posted by sonic meat machine at 9:36 AM on August 26, 2012

In other NASA news: Cretaceous Footprints Found at Goddard: NASA's Nodosaur Footprint Verified – Perhaps with Baby Nodosaur in Tow
posted by homunculus at 11:43 AM on August 26, 2012

Are we really going to have a Blue post every time Street View turns their cameras on?
posted by tapesonthefloor at 1:03 PM on August 26, 2012

Wow, Black Mesa was actually pretty accurate...

Black Mesa scheduled to launch on September 14
posted by homunculus at 3:13 PM on September 3, 2012