Space Center raises prices
Effective Monday, it will cost more to see the retired space shuttle Atlantis, a Saturn V moon rocket or IMAX movies at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
The standard admission price is going up $7, to $57 for adults (age 12 and older) and $47 for children ages 3 to 11, increases of 14 percent and 18 percent, respectively.
A smaller $4 bump will be implemented for senior citizens and military service members, who will now pay $50, up 9 percent.
Delaware North, which has operated the tourist center for NASA since 1995 without federal or state tax dollars, says the price increase is the first since 2012.
The price increases follow record Visitor Complex attendance of more than 1.7 million guests in 2017, topping levels before the shuttle program retired in 2011.