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Want to watch a rocket launch during your Orlando vacation? You're in luck. Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral host dozens of launches each year, and there are several excellent places to see them, whether you're looking for the closest possible view or a free waterfront vantage point.

EPCOT is now organized into four neighborhoods: World Celebration, World Discovery, World Nature, and World Showcase. You'll find high-tech thrills like Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, 11 international pavilions serving food and traditions from around the globe, and seasonal festivals that refresh the park throughout the year.

This Magic Kingdom guide is built to help you make sense of that sprawl before you ever step through the gates, from the quickest path to your first ride to the dining spot worth saving room for.

If a first visit is on your calendar, this Epic Universe guide walks you through the park's layout, each of its worlds, and the planning strategies that help you fit the most into your day, plus how the park connects to a larger Universal Orlando Resort vacation.

Universal Orlando Resort has grown into one of the biggest theme park destinations in the country, pairing high-thrill roller coasters with immersive, family-friendly dark rides that pull you straight into the story. With four parks now in the mix — Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, the water-based thrills of Volcano Bay, and the newly opened Epic Universe — there is more to explore than ever.

Few day trips deliver the awe of standing beneath a towering Saturn V rocket or coming face-to-face with a spacecraft that actually orbited Earth. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, on Florida's Space Coast about an hour east of Orlando, turns decades of NASA history into a hands-on adventure.