This is not a huge place, and its a little hidden behind SpaceXs launch control center, but its still definitely worth the time to visit. Nowhere else have I seen a history of each launch center all in one place with pictures, exhibits, models, along with docents and guides that have lived here, worked here, and can answer anything you can throw at them. Thanks for a great time.

Great little history museum with awesome volunteer staff! Bob is wonderful! Buy something in gift shop or make a donation to support!

LOTS of reading here! Thats ok but not everyone would enjoy it. My son and went through most everything but he zeroed in on the SpaceX stuff and headed straight to the gift shop! Very informative.

Fantastic and unique historical site. A bare bones building, but full of unique pieces of space history, with first class interpretive information and great volunteers. Highest recommendation for space buffs!!!

Easy to find IF you follow the signs, otherwise you feel like you’re going on to government property and it seems like you’re going where you shouldn’t be going - just follow the signs and you’ll go right to it.

Fabulous museum for anyone interested in Space and NASA. Most of the docents worked on the various space programs (Apollo, Mercury, the Shuttle). Its free.

A great collection of rocket components & history set in LC order & available free to the public just outside base. Docent Roger was very helpful in finding family history.

Lots of interesting history in an out of the way area!

Im a history nerd and loved every minute of the FREE (donations accepted) Sands Space History Center. It is not a huge place and you could easily see everything within an hour. But I recommend taking your time and learning all about the history of the space race and seeing the artifacts and models. Be sure to visit the gift shop also! Lots of cool things to buy. I got myself a Purple SpaceX t-shirt. I LOVE it!

This little museum is a hidden gem. Its right behind the SpaceX building outside the South Cape Canaveral Air Station gate. There is a wealth of information and some really cool static displays including an almost-new re-entry vehicle (only used once) and the actual mission control stations from historic launch sites on the cape. If you can get access to the cape, or pay a little extra on the Kennedy Space Center tour you can even make it back to the missile museum on Cape Canaveral proper. but if you cant you can sate your appetite for space program history at this little museum.

ABSOLUTELY COOL PLACE THAT YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW WAS THERE!!!

Awesome little museum staffed by volunteers. Our guide was a retired NASA veteran who worked on the ISS and was so friendly and knowledgeable. What a pleasure it was listening to him share his experiences with us. He literally walked us through the entire place and explained every exhibit. The gift shop is beyond reasonably priced as well!

Its a nice small walk through museum. Not a lot of stuff in there but the staff is very knowledgeable about all of the items that are in there and can tell you stories if you just ask. Make sure you read all the signs if you dont know what youre looking at.

Hidden on the military base, but this place has memories. Saw where my dad worked during launches. Very educational and free to visit. Nice staff with a wealth of knowledge.

The staff is very friendly and informative. If going with kids they will be bored as there is no interactive displays.

Only a tiny museum, it did have rocket parts and control systems from historical launches arranged in chronological order. A volunteer who had worked on the base gave us an enthusiastic tour of the facility. In contrast to the amazing and expensive Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center, this place was free and only had a few guests. The volunteers were happy to spend as much time talking and answering questions as you like.

Great place for space history. Nice displays And store.

This is a free museum that focuses on the role of Kennedy space center/cape canaveral air force station in US space exploration history. Small but detailed, with a small gift shop selling current mission patches. Definitely worth going a couple of times, especially if you are a space buff. This can be boring for children and the less geeky out there. Again, this is on space history in the area; do not expect interactive displays and a wide scope of interest.

Amazing, hidden gem! Full of facts and pictures, staff is very knowledgeable!

Great free space museum of the beaten path. Hard to find but with the hunt.

Don’t miss this museum! Artefacts, pictures and videos displaying the long timeline on rocket and space development at the Cape. Rocket engines and things you canzone touch. Friendly staff and nice gift shop too.It looks like it’s beyond the security gate but it’s not. Just go past the badging office and make the first right on Poseidon Ave. Then the first left on Spaceport Way. The museum is behind the SpaceX offices.

Really interesting museum! It definitely deserves to have an update so that the exhibits are a little more in depth, but Bob really makes the tour amazing. We were only there for about 45 minutes but it was still a great experience and I would love to come back!

Interesting space items. Fun to look around

A small but great little museum. Organised by launch pads. It reinforced what I learned from early space tour at tour at KSC. Worth a couple of hours if you’re a space geek. The gift shop at the back was nice and had some Falcon 9 on a drone ship t-shirts. The receptionist was a rocket geek too and offered lots of great info of the local area and where the drone ship docks. Yes, bonus to find the Space X LCC next door. Notice the warning sign about tailgaters.

This is a great free museum to find out the history of the rockets and programs out at the cape. The volunteers are very knowledgeable and passionate about rockets and space flight. The little gift shop in the back gets mission patches for the current launches, so you can find Boeing, space x, and ULA mission patches!

It is free and very interesting if you like the space race. Doesnt take very long to get through. Very nice and the volunteer staff is great!

Pretty cool place, its free and supported by its gift shop.

Small and nice but not an elaborate museum

Lots of history here. People are willing to answer questions.

Awesome place that is tucked away in a location that you would not find unless you are looking for it. Small but very interesting!

A place you have to go to when you are interested in early space endavours. Extremely kind volunteers try to guide you through the building. Not very many artifacts but that is made up with this historical location next to entrance of Air Force base.

Cute little museum, only takes about 20min-1hr to go through. Nice free treat on the space coast.

Interesting, quiet place, nice informative tour guide...free! Nice little gift shop for space memorabilia

The best museum of American space history. Michelle was an amazing tour guide and historian docent. I recommend it!

Great place explore and learn!! Had a blast

Great expo highlighting the launch history of the cape.

A great trip down memory lane for the history of space flight on Floridas space coast. Check out their gift shop for cool memorabilia and the latest launch mission patches!

Attended History Center on a tour of model rocket flyers and was very impressed with the collection of photos and written history of the launch complexes at Cape Canaveral that are not a part of Kennedy Space Center. The small gift store is a fun place to shop for space history buffs as well.

This is a great place, it has a very good history of all the Launch complexes, why they were there, what they were used for and significant events that happened from each. Fascinating place. Guide was very helpful and not intrusive. A Must for fans of the very early US space era. Shares a car park with Space-X, so that cant be bad either!

Great place to check out the history of CCAFS for free!!! Another perk to this place is that they have a gift shop with tons of stuff including SpaceX merch! When your driving to the history center you pass the first sign that says Cape Canaveral Air Force Station then turn right at the light and park by the SpaceX building and it’s behind the SpaceX building.

Go say hi to the very knowledgeable, Julia and see Rocket History! Greatest gift shop for Space X fans!

If you really are into space you cannot miss this place. Very informative, very engaged volunteers running this center will accompany you through most of the US space history which took place at the Air Force base and not at the Kennedy Space center. Dont forget that most rockets are still launched from the base.Last but not least the little shop is a real gem with a selection of very interesting books, DVDs, memorabilia and more.And if you wait some time you can even meet a SpaceX engineer with his Tesla at the car park ;-)At the center we were also informed that there is a museum within the Air Force base and that twice a week they offer a tour of the launch facilities, but you need to apply at least two days in advance to get your clearance in order to get access to the military area. We regret we visited this place on the very last day of our tour!

The best service weve ever had anywhere, its out of the way so the was not a lot of people but the people who give the tires are amazing, it is a small place with little displays illustrating the history of space exploration but we love space and science and found it inspiring. Long review for such a small place hehe

Excellent little museum sharing the USAF perspective on the space program. Focus on three launch complexes. Nice little gift shop. Google maps is confused about how to get there, just follow the road to the base and turn right before base entrance.

Wonderful experience. Having lived through the space race, Robert Gravelines information brought back all the memoriesand more. Thanks Robert.

This hidden gem is located outside the gates of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Here you will get a good history of space flight as well as missile testing at Cape Canaveral. Its great since youre not able to go onto the station for this. Its small but you could spend hours in there if you looked at every exhibit. The guide was very knowledgeable as well.The gift shop has a good selection of NASA, Air Force and Space X stuff.

Great experience. We got there as they were closing and they kindly let us explore with great enthusiasm. Loved it. Thanks!!

This place is a gem. Stumbled on it by accident when doing a drive-by to see the spacex launch control center next door. Staffed by friendly and knowledgeable volunteers, the museum is a trove of information and artifacts from the military missile and rocket programs housed at cape Canaveral air Force station since the early 50s. The gift shop has some cool items too, along with basically every mission patch!

Great little museum showing history of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Very nice staff.

Very interesting displays and the staff that was working with had worked on the Gemini program for over 12 years.

Fantastic! Small low key, historic experience. The Docent was super informative and so nice. The kids had fun playing with the control console and learning to work a rotary phone. Too funny!

After wandering around on the tour bus this was to little to late. The store didnt seem to have anything that jumped out at you that must have item. The building was very clean and well maintained.

Great place to learn more about about the history of launches

Had a great time. The volunteers were awesome and very knowledgeable. Former service members that were very patient with my girls.

Interesting display of early space achievements.

Lots of great information.

Awesome!!! So cool!! Run by Vets. There is a gift shop as well. Took us about an hour to go through. Its free. Not very big but full of history!!!!!

Bob was a great tour guide and very informative. My son was excited to meet him and to learn the history.

This is a wonderful hidden gem. Worth a look and IT IS FREE.

A great little museum documenting the history of the space program, ran by VERY informative volunteers (3-2-1 BLAST-OFF!). Great if you dont have time to visit the Kennedy Space Center - and much cheaper as well!

Interesting small museum showing USAF missle development.

Interesting and thorough information about history of rockets and launches. Helpful, friendly staff. Located directly behind SpaceX launch operations building.

Is a small museum, just 1 big room and small but nice store and with a lot of pictures, displays and some mock-up, including a Minuteman 2 head and V-2 engine. This museum is a must-go for anybody who loves aerospace history. Unfortunately is not possible to visit the Launch Complex 5/6 and 26 from this museum. You must take the Cape Canaveral - Then and Now tour from Kennedy Space Center.

Get your dose of not-so-well-known space history here!

Nice cool stop on space coast. Employees were very knowledgeable.

Really recommend this Museum... Ive been to it several times and still enjoy going back... a must if youre visiting the Cape Canaveral area.... Not easy to find ...... But its right behind SpaceX building....

A must-visit if youre in the area

Wine tasting, sampling. First visit to the shop. Will return in the future to shop their specials.

Really nice museum and even though its small, its packed with information about the different launch pads. The man working was knowledgeable on the launch pads and friendly to help us.

Awesome , great friendly staff.

American space history beautifully displayed

Open to the public. This museum has a lot of history about the space coast.

Cool place ,

Ok if your a history buff....but bonus is its next too SpaceX Launch and Landing. So a great spot for a picture on the weekends.

Interesting people as docents.

This is a small one-room museum. Even though it may not sound like much, that one room is packed with aerospace history. It touches on everything from the inception of the space race to the present day (including SpaceX, whose Launch Control Center is right next door). While not terribly exciting, this museum is definitely worth a visit.

Cool little museum with a brief history of rocket programs!

The docents were fantastic!

Small museum. Very informative volunteer

The volunteers here are very knowledgeable and can answer most questions.

Great place to discover , if you want to know the history of the space program this is the place to start

Great visit, especially with Flying Tigers group. History doesnt get better than this. Thanks, mike

A free museum run by the volunteers of the Air Force Space and Missile Museum. Great space artifacts and knowledgeable docents. Just outside the gate of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and next to the SpaceX Launch Control Center.

I wish I could say we loved it, but couldnt find it.

Beautiful views

If you love the space program, you dont want to miss this opportunity to get up close and personal with history.

Terrible. Only a Navaho outside. I guess all the other space junk got removed before Hurticane Matthew. The only good thing is tour guide who used to operate launch equipment back in the day. And the mission patches in the gift shop.

Decent history of Kennedy space center,

Good hidden treasure

Not fancy but they guides are so friendly as well as uninformative...must see for Space geeks.

Great history of the area.

Great staff! I liked this place!

Excellent little museum running through the history of the cape and launch vehicles. They rotate some of the exhibits in the glass cases, so you will always see new things.

The tour guide was a retired employee that had actually been there and worked on some of the equipment now shown in the museum. It was a fun bonus to heat his stories!

Great place for learning more about rockets.

Amazing history and knowledge from the tour guide

Lots of history. Great people.

Great Museum, you can see history of the launch pads

Small but great

Wow lots of information