St Aloysius College - NASA Tour - Nov 2025

Depart from Adelaide airport and fly to Orlando. Transfer to your hotel and have dinner at a local restaurant.

After breakfast head out to ICON Park to explore the local area and play 18-hole mini-golf experience set in a pirate-themed landscape with waterfalls, caves, and challenging obstacles at Pirate's Cove Adventure Golf. Tonight you'll organise you own dinner.

You'll take a tour around one of the largest and most innovative public universities in the USA, also known as the "Space University"

The campus tours begin at the Duke Energy UCF Welcome Center with a 15-minute information session, followed by a 90-minute walking tour of the campus led by a UCF student ambassador.

Keep adjusting to the time difference, recovering from the long journey and  all the first day excitement of arriving in a new country by exploring one of Florida's vibrant malls. Stroll through a diverse selection of popular American shops and brands, discovering the latest fashion trends along the way.

Experience the excitement of an NBA game as the Orlando Magic take the court for a thrilling live basketball showdown.

Schedule dependent - if neither is available then this will be replaced with an alternative actvitity (agreed with teacher) or money refunded.

Spend two days to exploring the two different parks at Universal: Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. You can also explore Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade and take the Hogwart’s Express between the two!

You'll take part in two educational programs

Enjoy a Behind the Adventure Educational Tour

A closer look at some of Universal's Islands of Adventure's rides and attractions

Students will feel like VIPs during this up to 3-hour tour that includes a few of our most popular attractions. From literature to technology, students will gain a new perspective of the innovation and creativity that goes into developing one of the world's most popular theme parks.

Program Type:
3-hour facilitated tour of Universal Studios™ or Universal's Islands of Adventure™. Tours begin at 8:00am.

Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit Science

Students learn a heart-pounding lesson in physics that teaches just what makes roller coasters like Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit so thrilling. In small groups, students use data they gathered to create a visual representation of the ride’s transfer of energy for a more cohesive understanding of physics principles.

 

Enjoy a morning at WonderWorks which is an amusement park for the mind full of “edu-tainment”. The attraction combines education and entertainment with more than 100 hands on exhibits that challenge the mind and spark the imagination. Set in a funky upside down building Wonderworks is made up of six ‘wonder zones’, natural disasters, space discovery, physical challenge zone, imagination lab, far out art gallery and light and sound zone.

This afternoon transfer to Cocoa Beach and get ready for your Space Experience.

For the next three days you'll be taken by private coach to Kennedy Space Center for the day.

Kennedy Space Center is an educational center that allows students to explore and tour NASA areas and interact with shows and exhibits. View ten-story high rockets from all eras of space exploration in the Rocket Garden, walk through a full-size space shuttle mock-up, see 3D-IMAX space films on gigantic five-story screens, and see an actual Gemini program capsule on display. Some recent additions to the Center now include the Space Shuttle Atlantis and The Hubble Telescope exhibit. The amazing exhibits and inspiring shows will immerse students into the past, present and future of the NASA space program. Students will also get a behind the scenes glimpse of Kennedy Space Centre on a NASA Bus Tour to the LC-39 Observation Gantry and the Apollo/Saturn V Centre!

Be a part of the next generation of space explorers that prepare for human’s deep space travel in the Astronaut Training Experience^® Center - Exploring with Lockheed Martin. The Astronaut Training Experience (ATX), will bring you as close to training, living and working on the Red Planet as possible without ever leaving Earth.

In ATX, train like the next generation of space explorers who will travel to Mars. Practice your docking skills, navigate the unique Mars terrain and experience the sensation of performing a spacewalk in a microgravity environment. Using exciting and immersive simulation technology, you and your team will work together to solve real-world problems using authentic NASA science.

This experience takes around 5 hours - spend the rest of the day exploring Cocoa Beach

ICONIC VIEWS AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Spend your second day at KSC.

Ride along with a space expert as they take you on a tour of America’s multi-user spaceport. The KSC Explore Tour goes beyond the Kennedy Space Center Bus Tour, making several stops to capture once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunities.  Get a photographic view of numerous spaceflight icons like the Vehicle Assembly Building and historic Launch Complex 39, disembarking to capture photos along the way to the Apollo/Saturn V Center.

Pack you bags and after breakfast take a coach to Midway for an epic Airboat Ride. Slide across the legendary St. Johns River on USCG inspected airboats. Get an opportunity to see wild alligators, various types of birds, and other wildlife from elevated seating. Your USCG Master Licensed Captain will share his knowledge of the Florida outback through voice-activated headsets.

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Land back in Adelaide with amazing memories of your American adventure