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We&#8217;d spend the time visiting relatives in the Cocoa area and going to the beach, but the highlights of the trip for me would be our visits to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/kennedy\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> and Walt Disney World! I loved going to KSC and seeing all the spacecraft and facilities, they even had a moon rock! During our day at Disney World my favorite land was of course Tomorrowland, the theming and rides just tied right in with my passion for space.<\/p>\n\n<p>I loved Mission to the Moon (Later Mission to Mars, then the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, and finaly Stitches Great Escape), the Carousel of Progress, the WEDway People Mover and of course Space Mountain. I&#8217;d just soak it all up imagining that it was all real. We always ate lunch at the Tomorrowland Terrace restaurant. it was ironic that when I went to work at WDW later in life that I worked at the Tomorrowland Terrace (Now Cosmic Ray&#8217;s Starlight Cafe).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m7ibOUNAHxI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s a YouTube video of the Tomorrowland Terrace restaurant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been fun thinking of those times, so much has changed, Apollo&#8217;s long gone and the shuttle program is about to end, Tomorrowland had it&#8217;s makeover in the 90&#8217;s when the name of the TLT changed. And now there&#8217;s the awesome Mission Space at EPCOT. 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