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An All Inclusive Holiday to Florida's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) can be both a fun and educational experience for a holidaying family. This tourist destination is an astronaut launch facility, but it also includes a science museum. The Kennedy Space Center is located on Merritt Island, Florida, in the United States.

Much of the Kennedy installation is a restricted area that is supervised by the US government. Nevertheless, tourists are very welcome to tour the KSC Visitor Complex. It is the official visitor center, featuring exhibits and displays of historic spacecraft and memorabilia. For example, in the Debus Center of the complex, there is the Gemini 9A spacecraft on display. The complex also includes shows and IMAX theaters where tourists can watch programs to learn more about NASA's space missions. For a more interactive adventure, the complex also has a Shuttle Launch Experience which takes the visitor on a simulated ride into space.

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West Palm Beach-based organization, the South Florida Science Museum is one of 500 finalists in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program, which will award vehicles to 100 nonprofit organizations based on votes from the public beginning May 9.

Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program will showcase five non-profit organizations each day for 100 days on Toyota's Facebook page, facebook.com/toyota. The South Florida Science Museum will be one of the five organizations highlighted for voting on May 20, 2011.

Local residents are encouraged to support the South Florida Science Museum and their quest for a new Toyota Highlander Hybrid. If the South Florida Science Museum receives the most votes of the five competing organizations on May 20 and is awarded the vehicle, it will be used to reach more than 45,000 school children as part of the Science Museum's award-winning Educational Programs and outreach, all based on Florida Sunshine State Educational Standards.

The famous London's natural science museum is going to return the skulls of 3 people to Australia. The skulls of the two adults and a child, acquired in the 1800s, are now kept in London's science museum. They will be sent to the Australian National Museum in Canberra. This is a bid to restore these science museum exhibits to the country where they were discovered, and a good will gesture between the two famous museums.

Torres Strait Islanders campaigned for the repatriation of the material, which was acquired by explorers in the past centuries.London's natural science museum looks forward to build up a long term relationship with TSI.All the materials are more than 100 years old.TSI has a good chance to make a contribution to global knowledge.

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