Florida Space Coast

Air Force Missile Test Center

Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.

U.S. Army Jupiter-C

The Army's JUPITER-C rocket carrying the United States first successful earth Satellite, Explorer 1, in its nose, rises majestically from the Cape Canaveral, Fla., launching site into the night sky.

Redstone Missile
This missile, made in Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal, is shown being readied for launching at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Air Force Missile Test Center

Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Douglas's Thro-Able Tiros launch at Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range.

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National Aeronautics And Space Administration's "Mercury-Redstone" being readied for launch at the Air Force Missile Test Center's Cape Canaveral launch site.

John F. Kennedy Space Center

N.A.S.A.

APOLLO/SATURN V FACILITY VEHICLE (500-F)

The movement of the first fully integrated Apollo/Saturn V configuration from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad A is a major milestone in the nation's commitment to a lunar expedition, and is the first full scale demonstration of the mobile launch concept.

John F. Kennedy Space Center

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Saturn IB space vehicle carrying Apollo 7 Astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham lifts off from Launch Complex 34.  Camera captures rocket clearing its 240-foot-high umbilical tower.

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Air Force Missile Test Center

Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

JUNO II, the U.S. Army's Space Probe under direction of NASA is made ready for launching at Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range.

National Aeronatics And Space Administration Project Mercury Astronaut Lt. Col. John H Glenn, Jr. entering the Friendship 7 Space Craft prior to launch on February 20, 1962 on history making 3 orbit flight.

Air Force Missile Test Center

Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

The Martin Company's Titan launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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John F. Kennedy Space Center

N.A.S.A.

Pre-launch preparations on the Atlas Centaur hours before lift-off from launch Complex 36 at Cape Kennedy.  The Centaur launch vehicle will be used to place a soft-landing payload on the moon.

Mock-up of LM (Lunar Module) at the Visitor Inforamation Center.

At Left-NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida

52 story Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).  This building contains 129 million cubic feet of space and covers 8 acres.  More than 58,000 tons of steel were used in its construction.

At Right-Launch of the APOLLO/SATURN V SPACE VEHICLE form Complex 39 A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.  At liftoff the 363-foot Launch Vehicle weighed 6,220,025 pounds.  The first-stage engines produced 7,500,000 pounds of thrust & burnt 15 tons of fuel per second.

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Air Force Missile Test Center

Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

Convair's Atlas being raised into position for launch at Station No. 1 at the Atlantic Missile Range.

Air Force Missile Test Center

Patrick Air Force Base, Florida

U.S.A.F. SM-65 Convair ATLAS

The ATLAS is the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile now being tested over the Air Force Missile Test Center's 5000-mile test range.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's "SATURN"  World's largest known rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on October 27, 1961.