The Astronaut Training Experience at Kennedy Space Centre is the ultimate day out for the space fan in your life (or for you if you’ve always harboured dreams of going into space!). This separately ticketed part of the Kennedy Space Centre experience is one of the newest additions to the complex and aims to prepare guests for a trip into space in the most authentic and realistic way possible.

Where better to start your training than at the Kennedy Space Centre, where real space missions launch regularly to this day, sending men and supplies up to the International Space Centre? You’ll begin your experience at Mars Base I, learning more about how space travel has impacted our lives on Earth as you tour model operational rooms and learn about the biology and technology experiments that are taking place at the International Space Centre. There’s plenty of opportunity to get your hands dirty as you grow and harvest plants in the Botany Lab, collecting data to return to real NASA scientists. You can also engage your brain, creating circuits to programme robots cleaning debris from solar panels.

Next up you’ll move into the training room, where things get really serious! You’ll experience microgravity as you take a seat in a specially adapted chair that mimics the sensation of floating through space, tethered only by a rope. As you’re floating, instructions are fed into your ear for what repairs need to be made from one of your colleagues on the tour experience, whose job it is to guide you as you complete your mission. Test how easily you can work under pressure as the clock ticks down!