- don’t plan a trip around a rocket launch. They get scrubbed all the time. Find something else you want to do in the area (even a few hours away, such as Miami

- don’t plan a trip around a rocket launch. They get scrubbed all the time. Find something else you want to do in the area (even a few hours away, such as Miami) and then make a game time decision to go if the launch is likely to happen. That said, the Kennedy space center visitors complex is fantastic, especially with kids, and is worth a short trip with or without a launch. make sure you have a backup plan or at least flexibility. We tried a couple times to see a shuttle launch as a child. Literally as we were coming up on the cross roads between Titusville and Orlando, the first launch attempt scrubbed. so we ended up at Disney a day early.