These historical films are a treasure for a historian of the space program. I love getting the perspective of the era in which these missions occurred. Thanks for putting these out for the public. They are greatly appreciated!
I have always been a big Cape/NASA fan all my life, I used to write NASA when I lived in Colorado back in 1974 and continued to to 1981, now that I worked there seeing some of these treasure first hand and the history to me is amazing. I been to sites most people will never get to see, and seeing the rocket launches never gets old. Thanks for the video, love the history, Go Cape & NASA.
+PeriscopeFilm I'm a docent at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station museum, which is located in the old Launch Complex 26 blockhouse. Part of the tour is talking about the launch of Explorer 1 from this facility, on Pad 26A. Both were used to launch Redstones and Jupiters, boosters developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun's team for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency before they transferred to NASA in 1960. The two complexes are on the same field, about a quarter-mile apart, and shared the same mobile service towers you see in the film. The towers were on rails. But LC-26 was commissioned about 2-3 years after LC-5/6.
These historical films are a treasure for a historian of the space program. I love getting the perspective of the era in which these missions occurred. Thanks for putting these out for the public. They are greatly appreciated!
I have always been a big Cape/NASA fan all my life, I used to write NASA when I lived in Colorado back in 1974 and continued to to 1981, now that I worked there seeing some of these treasure first hand and the history to me is amazing. I been to sites most people will never get to see, and seeing the rocket launches never gets old. Thanks for the video, love the history, Go Cape & NASA.
The commentator states that Explorer 1 launched from Launch Complex 5/6. That's wrong. It was Pad 26A a few hundreds yard to the north of Pad 6.
+SpaceKSCBlog Interesting -- amazing that they would make a mistake like this but -- it does happen.
+PeriscopeFilm I'm a docent at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station museum, which is located in the old Launch Complex 26 blockhouse. Part of the tour is talking about the launch of Explorer 1 from this facility, on Pad 26A. Both were used to launch Redstones and Jupiters, boosters developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun's team for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency before they transferred to NASA in 1960. The two complexes are on the same field, about a quarter-mile apart, and shared the same mobile service towers you see in the film. The towers were on rails. But LC-26 was commissioned about 2-3 years after LC-5/6.
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Wow this is Amazing History of NASA’s Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral!
These movies are in between the industrial type films of the early days and the funky ones soon to come
The correct term for the loading of propellant into the launch rockets isn't "Fuelling" it's "Tanking".
Much has changed in 50 years but Kennedy Space Center is still America's Spaceport this is where the rockets head into space.
Except for SpaceX and a few others. And even NASA occasionally