#Cape Canaveral

[lonestarflight]

Gemini III final inspection

"Technicians from the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which was responsible for producing the Gemini capsule, make final inspections to the Gemini III spacecraft. The photo is taken in the white room, a sterile environment where the spacecraft was prepared for launch, atop the Titan launch vehicle at Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Gus Grissom and John Young would ride the spacecraft into orbit for the first Gemini mission on a five-hour trip into space on March 23, 1965."

Date: March 23, 1965

NASA ID: S65-21090

[timmurleyart]

Snoopy in space. 🚀🪐🐶🇺🇸

[astronotmovie]

Ground control to Major Tom. Scene at the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral in Oct 1962 during the Mercury Atlas 8 Mission. This spaceflight by astronauts Wally Schirra orbited Earth 6 times & lasted 9 hours. All Project Mercury flights and Gemini 1-3 missions were monitored here. Mission Control moved to Houston from Gemini IV onwards.

[vintagecamping]

Spectators camping out on the Florida beaches to catch a glimpse of the Apollo 11 launch.

Cape Canveral, Florida

1969

[found-in-nomadland]

Kennedy Space Center

Merritt Island, Florida 🚀

[allanodyne]

The ashes of ambition

            by AllanOdyne

[moonwatchuniverse]

60 years ago... Faith 7 May 1963, USAF Major Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper is seen at the top of Pad  14 at Cape Canaveral looking over his one-man “Faith-7″ Mercury-Atlas spacecraft. Gordon Cooper choose to wear  both his personal wrist watches, an Accutron Astronaut tuning fork GMT pilot watch  at his right wrist and an Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4 manual winding chronograph at his  left wrist. Both watches had a Jacoby Bender Champion steel mesh bracelet and Cooper compared  his timepieces during the 34 hours 3 minutes 30 seconds long mission (22 orbits). Both watches worked flawlessly. All Mercury astronauts received an Accutron wrist watch and at  least 8 of the 12 X-15 testpilots, among whom Neil Armstrong, wore an  Accutron GMT pilot watch during X-15 hypersonic research flights. Accutron watches were worn during Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini III, Gemini V, STS-7 and STS-51D spaceflight  missions. Earlier, astronauts Donald Deke Slayton and Walter Wally Schirra were spotted wearing an Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4. However, Alan Shepard, acting backup for Gordo Cooper lobbyed for an extra MA-10 mission, during which he was going to wear an Accutron Astronaut GMT pilot watch as seen in numerous training photographs. MA-10 was never flown. (Photo: NASA)

[jackiehadel1]

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA STREET ART: SEA TURTLE by DAVID ROTHMAN

12dec23

[talkoftitusville]

SpaceX Starlink 6-43 Set To Launch Sunday Evening

Booster B1077 prior to its last launch, North Grumman NG-20Photo: Charles Boyer / FMN SpaceX plans to launch the Starlink 6-43 mission Sunday, March 10 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The payload will be another tranche of 23 Starlink satellites that will be ferried low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. According to the company,…

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 5 Saturn IB (LM-1/SA-204) at night on LC-37B.

Date: January 19, 1968

NASA ID: link

[lunarian-anarchist]

Cape Canaveral

[blueiskewl]

SpaceX Falcon 9 Delivers 5-Ton Communications Satellite to Orbit

The company continues to launch rockets at a breakneck pace, with 16 flights of Falcon 9 in the past nine weeks alone.

A Falcon 9 lit up the Florida skies Monday night in what is now a very familiar scene. The rocket successfully deployed Hispasat’s Amazonas Nexus communications satellite into a trajectory that will take it to a geostationary orbit, from where it will expand the Spanish company’s coverage across the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean, and Greenland.

The rocket took flight at 8:32 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Some eight minutes later, the main stage booster, B1073-6, performed a successful vertical landing atop the Just Read the Instructions droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the booster’s sixth flight, having previously delivered the SES-22 satellite, ispace’s HAKUTO-R lunar lander, and three batches of the company’s Starlink satellites.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral in the early hours of June 19, streaks above a stand of bald cypress trees. This was the second time in less than a year that a SpaceX rocket appeared in photographer Mac Stone’s frame while he was shooting at night in a remote swamp. Stone says that the increased frequency of launches without fanfare “suggests that we have crossed over into a new era where cosmic missions are simply business as usual.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY MAC STONE

[sabistarphotos]

February 14, 2023

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida

[found-in-nomadland]

Kennedy Space Center

Merritt Island, Florida 🚀

[allanodyne]

closer than you think

            by AllanOdyne