“What we're bringing for our users is basically an immersive…

“What we're bringing for our users is basically an immersive experience of a 1 portion of the NASA Kennedy Space Center facility.”Ryan Falor, project manager of Google's Street View. In honor of the center's 50th 2 , Street View is adding more than 6,000 images of the Space Center, the starting point for Apollo and space shuttle missions. “So you can go into the 3 , you can go into some of the large 4 there, like the Vehicle Assembly Building. You can go down to the launch pad and actually go up several floors of the launch pad and see where the 5 would walk and where they would go as they were boarding the shuttle.”The shuttle is now a thing of the past. But someday Kennedy will host a new 6 of spacecraft. “When we were there we actually got to take a snapshot of these structures and these systems in place before all those transitions happened. Many of those facilities are going to be decommissioned or 7 to different uses. So the opportunity to kind of capture that moment in Street View and preserve it, and make it 8 to people around the world, is I think really valuable and important.”