>>3053395Do it.
Get there first thing. They have an IMAX theater, and the Atlantis display is just fucking awesome, I'm probably the only person on this board that has been that close to it without doing that tour. You'll be doing a lot of walking around. The "Then and Now" tour, if it's the same one that 45th Space Wing used to do for free before "sequestration" (thanks Obama) it goes to the Bumper site where we tested German V2s captured in WWII, they drive around the "No-Go Navajo" missile site and talk about the early ICBM program, they spend a half hour at LC-5 and you get to go in the original blockhouse and see the original equipment that put the first American in space, they visit the Friendship 7 time capsule and they spend another half hour or so at Complex 36.
Now I didn't tell you this but when 45th Space Wing was running the tour you could stray from the group and shoot other parts of the sites they stop at, mostly LC-5 and Complex 36, but watch your time you have a half hour and I've been that last guy getting on the bus that they're waiting for. The tour is about 3 hours long.
Pro-tip: the LC-5 Missile Garden stop has a large red tower in the back part of the property. You *technically* aren't supposed to go there but the tour guides usually have their hands full with all of the other tourists so if you're careful you can sneak over there and get inside. That tower is from the Poseidon program I believe, and you could spend a whole day shooting inside of it, pic related. Bring a low-light lens, or a steady tripod. Be careful on the top levels that steel is 60 years old and hasn't been weatherproofed since then, but it is accessible.
