Troll at the Titusville Space Park

In front of the Project Mercury sculpture

Space View Park in Titusville, Florida is 15 miles directly across the Indian River from the launch pads of the Kennedy Space Center. A hugely popular place from which to watch space launches, it is also the first and only park in America that honors America's astronauts as well as the men and women behind the scenes.

The park is 2.63 acres landscaped with artistic sculpture, foliage, palms and hardwood trees. It features benches, a boardwalk, fishing and boat dock and a sheltered pier and includes a Veterans Memorial and the U.S. Space Walk of Fame. Monuments to the Mercury and Gemini space programs contain profiles of each astronaut with their hand prints in cement.

Tribute to Astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr. 

If you are lucky enough to be in the area when a launch is scheduled and can't get one of the extremely hard to acquire NASA Viewing Center tickets, the Titusville Space Park is the next best place to watch it from and Lil Dude Troll strongly advises you make every effort to see it. It's a Bucket List item!

Along the waterfront of the Titusville Space Park

To see pictures taken from the Titusville Space Park of the May, 2009 launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, please visit our sister site at - 2009 Atlantis lift-off.