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WEST The Sites! Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center This interesting facility is located at the Kona International Airport, in between Aloha and Hawaiian terminals and across from the car rental station to be exact. What the museum lacks in size, it more than makes up for in quality, as its first-rate exhibits feature model rockets, space shuttles, moon rocks, and a working gravity well. There is an interactive rocket-propulsion exhibit, where you can launch your own miniature space shuttle. The museum is named after Big Island native Ellison Onizuka, one of the astronauts who perished in the 1986 Challenger accident. The museum also has guest astronauts for lectures, call for schedules. Admission $3 adults, $1 children 12 and under Daily 8:30am-4:30pm. Parking: In Airport lot, $2 per hour.
---------- Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii
Authority Technology buffs should consider a visit to NELHA, the only site in the world where the hot, tropical sun, in combination with a complex pumping system that brings 42° F ocean water from 2,000 feet deep up to land, is used to develop innovations in agriculture, aquaculture, and ocean conservation. The interesting 1½-hour tour takes in all areas of the high-tech ocean science and technology park, including the seawater delivery system, the energy-conversion process, and some of park's more interesting tenants, from Maine lobsters to giant clams. Free guided tour Thurs 10am; reservations required. ---------- Kailua Pier The launching point for many sightseeing and fishing excursions, this pier is always a-bustle with activity. On one day, an excited crowd may gather around scales to see the weigh-in for an enormous marlin a lucky angler pulled in. On another, you may witness the frenzied anticipation that takes place as more than 1500 world-class competitors line up and await the sounding of the gun for the first leg of the infamous Ironman Triathlon. Of course, there's much more to do at the pier than watch others have all the fun. Fishing tackle rental is available for landlubbers weary of getting too far away from terra firma. Sunsets here are nothing short of spectacular – rumor has it that the end of the pier has heard more than its share of marriage proposals.
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