Showing posts with label Kennedy Space Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennedy Space Center. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Florida Space Coast

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
N.A.S.A.
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.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Florida Space Coast

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.