![]() ![]() ![]() “They were confident that our creativity could translate their ideas into something truly compelling.” For this next project, the result of which is the brand new Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction, PGAV Destinations served as the architects, exhibit designers, graphic designers, interior designers, and media storytelling lead. “They engaged us based upon our strong relationship with them and many of our people’s passion for NASA’s space program,” said Mike Konzen, PGAV principal and chairman. The entry plaza executes on this theme via a beautiful new fountain show, NASA-globe icon, retail space, dining, and reworked ticketing and guest flow that gives visitors a glimpse of the awe-inspiring Rocket Garden before they’ve even set foot inside the complex. Stemming from the central idea of what the entry plaza should convey – the excitement to be held within – the new, bold “Explore” marquee places visitors in the central mindset and mood for the spirit of NASA. In this phase, PGAV served as the architects, environmental designers, and graphic designers. The first project of the Master Plan opened in December 2012 with the new $16m entry plaza. This strategic outline also contained a robust, 10-year forecast and analysis of attendance growth and what steps Delaware North would need to take to meet those projections. Out of that partnership, PGAV developed a 10-year master plan which outlined and advised specific steps for Delaware North regarding guest experience, food, retail, new attractions, and new NASA stories to tell. In 2010, the company hired PGAV Destinations to develop ideas to take the Visitor Complex to the next level. Now just 17 months after the groundbreaking of the revolutionary attraction, the following chronicles PGAV’s journey in helping create Space Shuttle Atlantis.ĭelaware North Companies Parks & Resorts has operated KSCVC on behalf of NASA for 18 years. PGAV served as the principle storytelling and design firm for the attraction architecture, interiors, exhibits, and media. ![]() The PGAV Destinations design brings guests within inches of the historic spacecraft and takes them on a journey to space and back again via emotionally engaging immersion experiences. The new attraction tells the epic 30-year story of the Space Shuttle Program and stars Atlantis, one of only three remaining space-flown orbiters, and the last to fly in space. Louis, MO – July 2, 2013) – PGAV Destinations is proud to announce that its latest destination design, Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC), is now open to the public on Florida’s Space Coast, less than an hour east of Orlando. Since 1985, Space Shuttle Atlantis has performed such missions as launching satellites, deploying the Magellan probe to Venus and the Galileo probe to Jupiter ferrying crew and cargo to Space Station Mir and the International Space Station and performing the final servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.World’s Most Comprehensive and Interactive Attraction Devoted to the Space Shuttle ![]() It’s sad to have gone from President Kennedy’s vision of beating the Russians to the Moon to the current policy of indefinitely paying the Russians to ferry U.S. Now that the President has cancelled Constellation and broken his August 2008 promise to Space Coast residents that he would close the space gap and keep America first in space, NASA has been left directionless. “The Constellation program would have provided NASA and our human space flight program with a bold post-Shuttle mission, to return to the Moon and then on to Mars. I had advocated extending the program until we had a clearer path forward.” “And while I’m delighted to have Space Shuttle Atlantis retire to the Kennedy Space Center here in Central Florida, I’m extremely saddened to see our human space flight program put on hold for the foreseeable future. “I salute our brave Astronauts and all of the Shuttle ground crew, engineers and technicians for their many years of service to our space program and our nation,” said Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) who as a young man worked on the Apollo Program at the Kennedy Space Center. Upon completion of its final mission, STS-135, Shuttle Atlantis will be retired to its permanent home at Central Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Space Shuttle program and the end to America’s ability to access space for the foreseeable future. Today Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) made its 33rd and final launch into space marking the end of the U.S. Final Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis Suspends America’s Ability to Access Space ![]()
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