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Kennedy Space Center launching new immersive experience starring Peanuts characters

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Peanuts characters will narrate the history of NASA and discuss the Artemis missions.

Kennedy Space Center‘s visitor centre is opening a new immersive and educational entertainment experience featuring Peanuts characters in spring 2023.

‘All Systems Are Go’ is a live experience created by production company Monlove, starring Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Sally, Linus, Lucy, Franklin and Schroeder.

Monlove is transforming the visitor complex‘s 300-seat Universe Theater for the attraction, which will include Dolby Atmos sound, motorised scrims and more than 20 integrated laser projectors.

Monlove’s CEO Ella Louise Allaire and chief content officer Martin Lord Ferguson have composed an original orchestral score for the experience.

‘All Systems Are Go’

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All Systems Are Go will “entertain and educate the audience about what NASA has achieved and will pursue in the future”, said Allaire and Lord Ferguson.

“The creative potential for telling this larger-than-life story through the eyes of the fabled Peanuts characters is as vast and exciting as space itself.”

Using augmented reality (AR) and smartphones, guests will interact with the environment and discover space-themed elements. The Peanuts characters will narrate the history of NASA and discuss the Artemis missions.

“Guests of all ages will love the experience from start to finish,” said Therrin Protze, chief operating officer at the Kennedy Space Center’s visitor complex.

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“Peanuts has had a long association with space, starting with NASA’s Apollo 10 mission in the 1960s to Snoopy being the zero-gravity indicator on the upcoming launch of Artemis I,” said Craig Herman, VP of global brand experiences and publishing for Peanuts.

The new attraction is “a fantastic avenue for fans to learn about Peanuts and NASA’s storied history as well as experience Charles Schulz’s iconic characters in a new and exciting way”, he added.

Earlier this year, the Kennedy Space Center’s visitor complex opened its latest attraction, Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex.

Images: Kennedy Space Center

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