Kennedy Space Center Tour, Oct.10th, 1999

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11 NSXs visited the Kennedy Space Center for our first VIP tour of the launch and landing facilities located at Cape Canaveral.  We had 3 cars from Miami, the most South Florida members to attend a Central Florida event!  The beautiful spa-yellow NSX-T up front belongs to Essam Ismail of Winter Haven, a new recruit.

We were given our own tour bus and our own fabulous tour guide Michael who narrated our two hour trip.  It included areas of the facility such as the shuttle landing strip and close-ups of the shuttle launch pads which are not open to the general public.

bus1.jpg (24594 bytes)bus2.jpg (34372 bytes) fresh morning faces on the bus

Austin1.jpg (29542 bytes)launch1.jpg (34461 bytes) close-ups of the shuttle launch pad and mobile tractor path

VAB.jpg (32609 bytes) the Vehicle Assembly Building or VAB, large enough to have it's own climate

Ismail1.jpg (45380 bytes)shuttle2.jpg (38457 bytes) Essam and Sonya Ismail and their spa yellow 97-T

chin1.jpg (24034 bytes) yours truly with the "red beast"

Several members enjoyed a fabulous dinner at Hemingways at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Saturday Oct.9th.  We welcomed new members Deborah and Vincent Howard with their '94 green automatic (finally a companion for Richard Schneider's spotless '91 black automatic).

Schneider1.jpg (15125 bytes) Richards black '91 cruising Rt.535 on the way to dinner

Howard1.jpg (23420 bytes) Deborah and Vincent Howard...ask them about the cuisine on the Inca trail in Peru

Hyatt1.jpg (42093 bytes) VIP parking at the Hyatt

Parker1.jpg (31446 bytes) Dave and Dave from Miami