Fly Like Millionaires: Blue Origin Debuts Rocket Simulator at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

It’s easy to feel like an astronaut at the Kennedy Space Center but don’t just experience the spaceship—look out the window, too.

Crew Member 7 astronaut trainer Barret Schlegelmilch stands in Blue Origin's simulator of its New Shepard spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. The immersive virtual reality experience inside a replica of the New Shepard crew capsule uses actual data and imagery to authentically mimic the rocket’s journey above the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/TNS

By Richard Tribou From Orlando Sentinel

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.—Those taking a virtual ride to space on the new Blue Origin New Shepard simulator at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex face the same conundrum as the folks who can afford the real thing—don’t forget to look out the window.