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Find an old bunker while searching for the museum |
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The Cape Canaveral Light House |
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David photos the lighthouse landmark marker |
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So does Cathy along with Lisa and Jon |
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Finally find the Space & Missile Museum |
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Site of the first successful US satellite launch |
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The complex hosted 26 launches through 1963 |
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Bleeding edge technology 45 years ago |
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Addition and subtraction capable calculator |
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View of Pad B through six inch glass |
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View of Pad A where Explorer 1 launched in 1958 |
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Gordo, Able & Ms. Baker launched from LC 26
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26 successful launches out of 14 on Pad A . . . |
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. . . and 22 attempts on Pad B means 10 failures |
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Lisa, David, and Cathy learn some space history |
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We head over to Launch Complex 5/6 |
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Pad 6's Jupiter rocket under repair since hurricane |
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Pad 5 features a Mercury Redstone rocket |
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LC 5/6 put Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom, . . . |
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. . . America's first astronauts, into suborbital flight |
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David mans the firehose for the next launch |
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The oldest gantry resides in rocket park beyond a Corporal and a Bomarc rocket |
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Bomarc rocket |
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Mercury, Apollo, and Gemini Boilerplate capsules |
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Polaris A3 & LC 19 White Room beyond the Gemini boilerplate.
Active LC 17 for Delta 2/3 far right |
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Polaris A1, green Pershing 2, and Jupiter far right
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Redstone left and Nike Hercules points to LC 17 |
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Tall Thor Able and small green Lacrosse rocket |
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Red Firebee 2 with Quail, Sparrow 1, & Firebird |
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Minuteman 1 with a Mace B in the background |
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Hound Dog A rocket closeup |
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Coworkers await at the LC 26 blockhouse |