Photos from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, North America - page 4

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“That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap for Mankind” – Neil Armstrong

the actual networks feed, also reassembled

watching blastoff

No, I wasn't really there for the blastoff.

preflight checklist

the actual Apollo 11 control room brought from Houston and reassembled

WHEW !!!!

''Ahoy down there, this is your pilot speaking''

side view

''Moon Buggy'' (LRV)

The Lunar Module held the Lunar Lander and the astronauts, and later the Lunar Roving Vehicle or 'Moon Buggy'.

model of the Lunar Lander

heading toward the ''front end'' (the Lunar Module)

The compact Orbiter’s engine provided power to retrieve the astronauts and head back home.

Stage Two engines were smaller because Stage One had been jettisoned.

Five F1's combined developed over 7.5 MILLION pounds of thrust.

one of the five Stage One engines The description of how it works is fascinating.

It takes a lot of thrust to reach 24,000 mph (38,600 kmh) to escape the earth's gravity.

To summarize comparisons, the 5 Stage One engines produced 169 million horsepower.

view of part of the Saturn V and Apollo display

the end result of years of testing and improvement to get everything right

Progress was by trial and error, one little step at a time.

Some of the astronaut training was done in the most inhospitable surroundings on earth.

closeup of a suit, which would be custom made at a cost of about $2 million each

first things first

This building displays a Saturn V, t he most powerful rocket ever built, which propelled all the flights to the Moon.

Liquified hydrogen fuelled the Stage 2 engines of a Saturn V.

Launch pads undergo tremendous stresses, so must be frequently refurbished.

20X telephoto of VAB and launch pad They are actually 3+ miles apart.

The ''crawlerway'', two 40 foot (12+ m) wide lanes separated by a 50 foot median, is perfectly level for 3+ miles.

Each cleat weighs nearly a tonne. Click on the photo to read more details about the 'crawler'.

The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), 526 feet high covering 8 acres (3 ha) is where rockets are readied for launching in spotless surroundings.

'biography' of space shuttle Atlantis

To enter the Display Center you walk below the fuel tank of one of the enormous rockets used to launch the shuttles.

This building houses the space shuttle Atlantis, which made the first and the last American trips to the ISS.

The momentous choice seemed unrealistic to many. Little did the doubters know!

Info plaques are located at appropriate points throughout the grounds.

Note the flags of all the nations that have contributed to building and maintaining the International Space Station (ISS).

The ''rocket garden'' is a whimsical display for kids, like a garden where missiles grow.

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