Your personal "Space Program": (all flight-times are under special scheduling)

1. Day
At Frankfurt Airport/Germany you will met our Mr. Andreas P. Bergweiler personally. He will attain you on your complete voyage and will give you all needed informations. At 10:50 you will have a take off to the first target: Washington.
You will arrive at Washinington "Dulles International Airport" at 13:40 local time. Our special tour guides will welcome you at the airport.

Your hotel, the "Holiday Inn Capitol" is located central and only nearby a block in distance to the National Space Museum. After check in at the hotel, you will met the complete group at the hotel bar, where you will met your special tour guides. You will have a welcome drink with the group and guides at the bar.
After that, you will have a sightseeing tour with a german speaking guide trough Washington, D.C. You will visit onto the 4-hours guided tour e.g. the Vietnam Wall, the Lincoln Memorial, the Obelisk and the White House. After the sightseeing we will come back to our hotel, the evening is free and you can do what ever you want.

2. Day
"From the past into the present."
After the breakfast we will met us at the hotel-lobby. After a short walk we will be at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.
Here you will explore all things about air- and space-history.
Special highlights of the museum:
'Exploring the Planets'
'The Space Race': History of the American- and Russian space history. How it came to the giant step outwards to space?
'Lunar Exploration': Which missions explore the Moon?
'Rocketry & Space Flight': You will see a mockup of the spaceship, created by Jules Verne. You will wee several space-suits and the first rocket-motors and engines.
The complete museum can be observed by you. All flight-and space-interested travelers will have a wonderful sightseeing.
After this day we will return at late afternoon at the hotel and will meet us at the hotel bar. After that there is a dinner.

3. Day
'Here comes the sun.'
After breakfast we will transport you to the airport, from where you will depart at 12:35 local time to Orlando/Florida. Arrival to Orlando is planned 18:28 local time. You will picked up with a special bus and a new tour guide. He will transport us to the hotel "Howard Johnson Plaza". After check in, we will meet us for a multimedia-presentation for the upcoming Space Shuttle flight. At the evening you can have a recreation, or you can use the very good hotel bars and restaurants.

4. Day
'Honour and Glory'
After breakfast at the hotel we will drive to the city of Titusville, there we will visit the "Hall of Fame of Astronautics". Titusville is the so called "Astronaut City", since the early sixties there live there astronauts. You will have a guided tour and you will see the "John Glenn Momorial", a special place honoured the American man, who orbited 1962 as first American astronaut planet Earth. The city center of Titusville will invite you for a shopping-hour. Use the time for your own excecursions. At late afternoon we will coming back to the hotel, the evening is free, and you can have a recreation or discover the hotel or special places around it.


5. Day
'Present-Day: Lift-Off! Cleared the tower!'
The highlight of your voyage is today special point of your program: the lift off of the Space Shuttle. You will discover the lift off on the other side of the Banana-river from special view points. (We try to recieve entrance to the world famous VIP-stage nearby the Countdown-Clock at the area of Kennedy Space Centre). You will inform over loudspeakers about all preflight preperations and you will hear transmission between the Flight Control Centre and the crew-members of the Space Shuttle. Before 2 hours for the liftoff, you will be at the region of the viewing area. . Our space experienced guide will explain all special moments of the ending-phase, before the Space Shuttle will have a lift off with millions of horse powers into space. Then, they begin their 11- 14day mission.

 

(Note: when the schedule of the liftoff-hour is determined, we will have a short trip before the lift off to the Kennedy Space Centre "Visitor Complex". There, you will have a sightseeing trought the "Rocket Garden", you will see the "Shuttle Plaza". You will open your eyes wide in the I-MAX-cinemans)
After the sucessfull liftoff we drive back to the hotel or to the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex. We can have a break there, and you can visit the Space Shop. In the shop you can find everything - from a small mission patch to a giant model of the International Space Station ISS. In the late afternoon after the dinner we will met us at the hotel bar. The evening is free.

6. Day
'Eyes wide up!'
Today we will visit after the breakfast the Kennedy Space Centre.
The "NASA Close Up Tour" is the first program step:
During this 4-hour tour, NASA will show you all special things on the NASA-area here: the greatest assembly building, the "Vehicle Assembley Building", the giant "Rocket-Crawlers" (with this crawlers the 111m hight Saturn V Moon Rocket was transportated from the Assembly Building to the launch pads, today with this crawlers the Space Shuttle will transport to the launch pad). You will visit historical launch-pads from the Mercury- and Gemini-missions of the sixties, also the Shuttle Landing Facility. On this very long runway the Space Shuttle's lands after it's flight into space. You will catch an overview from the Observation Gantry, a re-builded launch-pad for viewers. After that, a special item: visiting of the Apollo Saturn V-Centre: You will have a seat and you will discover the last 3 minutes before the lift off of the Apollo 8 Mission in a multimedia-show in a full-functionally flight-control room. After that, you will stop breathing: a giant original Saturn V rocket (111 meters in length) you will see. You can see the three main stages of this rockets, the Command module of Apollo and the Moon Lander.
At late afternoon you will coming back to the hotel, at the evening we will met us at the hotel bar.

7. Day
'What goes up, must come down!'
At midday we will fly from Orlando to Houston, the next step on your voyage.
After arrival at Houston, we will pick you up with the bus and we drives onto the NASA-Road to Boeing Technologies. There is a special building - and the greatest "pool" of the world. There astronauts train in special space suits weightlessness. They train outguarded work outside a space station or the Space Shuttle. They learn, how to work in open space - during a so called EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity). You will see inside the "Sunny F. Carter-Building" the giant water-tank, besides it the Space Shuttle Flight Simulators, where astronauts train the flights with the Space Shuttle. Under water you will see several 1:1 models, so called "mock ups" of the International Space Station ISS. After this sightseeing, we will drive to the hotel "Hilton Nassau Bay", there we will spent the next two days. The evening is free.

8. Day:
'Touch the Moon'
Today, you will make the last step onto your special "Space voyage": You will visit the Johnson Space Centre, the heart of the American spaceflight. Nearby special viewings, e.g an Saturn V Rocket (original forseen for Apollo 19 & 20), you will find a original scaled model of the "Skylab Space Station" from the 70ies.You can go inside and watch the greatest space station (in diameter) since ever. After that, you will have an encounter with the Moon: in a special zone, you can touch the Moon with your own hands. You will never forget this moment in your lifetime!

You can visit the I-MAX 3d-cinama and you will fascinated from the pictures of the movies from space. The movies are made from astronauts, who have filmed their missions in real space. Hand in hand with the Universe!
After this very impressed day, we will invite you to Kemah, a special fun-area nearby Houston at the Gulf of Mexico. We will invite you to a farewell-dinner. Here you can have the possibility, to talk about the last days and your rememberings. A very good end of a phantastical and experienced voyage!

9. Day
'Farewell... Space.'
At the next day, we will say good beye.
After breakfast we will drive with the bus to the airport. We will have a short break at the Galeria, one of the greatest superstores located in Houston. The departure flight to Frankfurt/Germany will start at 15:50 local time.

10. Day
'Touch down.'
You will arrive at Frankfurt/Germany airport at 8:50 local time Germany

After this voyage you will say: My dream was alive ...!