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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, the new Angry Birds Space Encounter was opened to visitors during a grand opening celebration. Helping to open the new attraction, from left are Spaceperson Bill Moore, chief operating officer of the KSC visitor complex Red Bird, one of the Angry Bird characters NASA astronaut Don Pettit Dan Mitchell, director of location-based entertainment for Rovio Entertainment and Kelvin Manning, associate deputy director of Kennedy Space Center. Finland-based Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the Angry Birds Space game, partnered with Kennedy Space Center to bring the beloved characters to life. It is the first Angry Birds interactive exhibit in the United States designed for people of all ages. The 4,485-square-foot facility hosts the space adventures of the Angry Birds as they travel into an intergalactic wormhole, come face-to-face with Space Pigs and discover heroic superpowers. Six interactive stations are designed to encourage children in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields of study. Photo credit: NASA_Kim Shiflett