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