Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
More spaceships!
We’ve already posted Cape Canaveral, but it’s worth noting that you can also see a space shuttle with its boosters lying nearby, as well as the vehicle assembly building where they put all this stuff together. Jim Thompson has an excellent annotated flickr image of the whole area, thanks Jim 
Thanks this time to Jim Thompson, Editfish, Terry Foster, Adam Latz, Peter Bonnett, Adam Orford, Bill Mullins, Chinmay, Papapenguin, David and John Neilson.
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This isn’t an actual space shuttle stack. This is a mockup at the visitor’s center. The complex Southwest of the shuttle in the picture is all the visitor’s center. The rocket park is on the far west side and the IMAX theatre right in the center slightly North.
A space shuttle at “Anaheim, CA”?
I just was wondering that myself…
Oops, thanks guys, not sure how that search term got in the URL! Fixed now
love it, had to have a wee play with the zoom function at that location.
http://www.cybo.co.uk/2005/04/26/google-launch/
Thought you all might want to know: Look at the Vehicle Assembly Building (the huge, bright white building where they put together the space shuttle and its boosters). Now look just a few inches NW of that, where there’s a relatively small, nondescript grey building. It’s long and it has four sections. It’s right above the building that’s shaped like a microphone, which has two yellowish square buildings next to it. That’s where they keep the shuttles between flights.
And directly to the north of the VAB you can see both the crawler that takes the shuttle out to the launchpads and, beside it, the platform which it lifts, upon which the shuttle stack is assembled.
Here is another space shuttle. Is it real?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
No, this one isn’t real either… it’s at the Space Camp building (I don’t know if it’s still Space Camp)
As a rule, you won’t really see the shuttle on it’s own unless it’s rolling just outside the VAB from OPS or coming in from the runway after landing.