♪♪ With the museums and memorials found in the Miracle City, Titusville gives folks from near and far the opportunity to learn more about how space exploration has impacted Central Florida and the world.

♪♪ >>The whole park itself.

When you go from the Mercur to the Gemini across the street to Apollo and Shuttle, it's encompassing the space program from here, from Kennedy.

And they tell the story.

The Apollo monument has 12 huge panels around that actually tells the Apollo story.

The shuttle has six panels, one for each orbiter.

The only real memorial we have up there is one pylon right in the middle between shuttle and Apollo, and it's a memorial to all those men and women that were killed here at KS and on the Air Force side doing their jobs.

They had no idea that coming out here and working as a construction guy, or working as a roofer, or going from one building to another to do your job, that you would get killed doing that.

You know, I look at that, and I think of the ones that I knew that died.

>>It brings back a lot of memories of, first of all, there's a lot of names there that brings bac relationships that you had with people that you worked with and brings back memories of things that that occurred, that you worked together on difficult times, successful times.

>>What is the best memory in all of the years involvement in the space program?

It was.

It was the people.

The people that had a purpose, enjoyed what they did.

They did it well and it showed.

>>Those were people that contributed to the advancement of technology, that produced the technology to do what we've done in the spinoffs, that they have the benefit of that they're carrying around in their pockets.

>>Think of what that goal drove in the way of developing technologies that wouldn't have been there if you didn't have that kind of pressure put on you to develop.

>>If you go back to the Apollo program, to me, it still boggles my mind that it worked so beautiful because we were working with 1960s hardware.

>>You know, I got more computing power in my pocket than we used.

You know, on that Saturn V.

>>It's just been that kind of an explosion, the amount of computing that we do without even thinking about it these days.

>>We call this the golden age of space.

And, you know, being part of that all the way through, which is fantastic.

And if I was 40 years younger, I'd be out there now doing the same thin because it was part of my life, really was.

>>Every mission was unique.

It was always a thrill.

It still is a thrill.

It's just mind boggling, still, to think that we've had people walking around up there.

>>That's great, is the lighting halfway decent?

>>Yes, indeed, they've got the flag up now.