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Lost In Space
American Pie
Don McLean (1971)
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Ooo, Ooo, Josh …
Look at the ball of fire!
For the first time, a young, South Florida family feels the excitement of watching, from the front yard of a small cottage on the Indian River in North Cocoa, Florida, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. The tourism department says “SEE IT LIKE A NATIVE,” and let me say, as a native, no place on Earth is more “NATIVE” than Florida’s Space Coast.
On this day (JULY 8,2011), the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew were destined to orbit, 250 miles above Earth, on their mission to resupply the International Space Station. (STS-135)
28° 36′ 30.2 N 80° 36′ 15.6 W
SACRED GROUND — At the east end of State Road 50, where it meets US1, directly across the Indian River Lagoon, from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and Complex #39, eleven miles away. Launch pads 39A and 39B, can be seen on The Cape’s horizon, mark planet Earth’s most sacred ground, The last spot touched by twelve (American) astronauts before they stepped onto the Moon.
NAKED LAUNCH*
PRETTY AS A “FLORIDA” PICTURE
[STORY HERE] Follow photographer Spencer Tunic, wife Krissy, and model Melissa, from Orlando, east on State Road 50 to Titusville, on Florida’s east coast. The Space Coast. Melissa had told Spencer she had the perfect spot for Spencer to shoot (take or make if you prefer) the “Florida” picture (shot or image if you prefer) for his 50-piece “NAKED STATES” TOUR.
I wanted to be a “Spaceman”
Harry Nilsson (1972)
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NASA
[FROM THE TOP]
“EARTHRISE“ — Maybe the most impactful photograph ever taken, credited by Al Gore as having been the image that fueled the Environmental Movement (EARTH DAY* APRIL 22, 1970). The World Seen ‘Round The World, seen as it had never been seen before. The crew of Apollo 8 had been the first to see the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, and the “best” was soon to come. In the quiet of a lunar orbit, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were shocked to see what none had imagined. A Vivid, Blue Earth was rising slowly above the horizon of a colorless Moon. Shining brilliantly, a tiny light in the ABSOLUTE BLACK OF SPACE. All three grabbed camera’s, but it was only Anders’ that was loaded with color (Kodak Ektachrome) film, and it is he who is credited with shooting the most famous picture of EARTH.
HUB’S INN — The old, deteriorating metal building on the Indian River in Cocoa, was once the most popular (sometimes infamous) seafood restaurant in Florida, or all of the Southeast for that matter. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Hub’s attracted the most discriminate fish eaters, diners, and “aristocrats,” including Al Capone, who with his entourage, who sailed his 50-foot motor yacht up the Intracoastal Waterway from his home (mansion) on Miami Beach.
Hub’s closed in 1974, the same year NASA’s Apollo program came to an end, five years after it had met president Kennedy’s (Man On The Moon) challenge.
“THE RIVER ROAD”
by Sam Newton
HIGHWAYMEN — Alfred “Beanie” Backus and his African American students painted Florida landscapes, and sold them out of the trunk of their car, all around the state. Mostly A1A, north of their home in Fort Pierce. [HIGHWAYMEN SPECIALISTS / DEALERS]
[Highwaymen Social YouTube]
1959 — NASA/ NASCAR/ DAYTONA 500
1960 — Where The Boys Are
Rock Around The Clock
Bill Haley
& His Comets (1954)
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Hail Hail Rock N Roll (1987)
Hail Hail Rock N Roll (1991)
[FROM THE TOP]
American Graffiti
John Glenn*
“Johnny B. Goode“
Chuck Berry
Jimi Hendrix*
Living Colour*
SILVER PINES — 2806 Shepard Drive, The Park, around which the Silver Pines solar system revolved. Baseball field with backstop, Painted pine left field line, swings, see-saw, and monkey bars in a small stand of pines.
Alan Shepard*
First to Fly
May 5, 1961 — It had been two weeks since the Soviets sent Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, and NASA (America) was anxious about falling behind the Communists. Alan Shepard could have beaten the Soviets to space, but his launch was held because of bad weather on Florida’s East Coast, including Cape Canaveral.
“Hit The Road Jack”
Ray Charles
1961 — JFK’s CAMPAIGN THEME
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JFK (Robert Seaman)
“Taste Of Honey / Hard Day’s Night”
Tijuana Brass (1965)
Beatles (1964)
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[FROM THE TOP]
ORANGES*
INDIAN RIVER CITRUS
b/ JOHN McPHEE
1961* — DESTINATION MOON
1969* — WAR & HOPE
The Right Stuff (1983)
The Right Stuff (trailer)
The Right Stuff 2020 (trailer)
Tom Wolf (Author)
Hidden Figures (2016)
Ray Charles (“Hit The Road Jack”)
Norman Rockwell (“The Problem We All Live With“)
Ed White (Gemini 8)
The Beatles (“A Hard Day’s Night“)
“Blackbird” (1968)
Herb Alpert (Tijuana Brass)
Surfing Hollow Days (’60s Florida Surf )
Jackie Gleason
Ross Allen (Miami Serpentarium)
Silver Pines drama. Malcolm McComas struck by diamondback rattlesnake. Jimmy Horton’s father tourniquet, and drove to Weustoff. Distance between punctures, suggested a 13 to 14-foot snake … big enough to get the attention of Florida’s own “Marlin Perkins.”
The Beatles and Cassius Clay, February 18, 1964, Miami Beach.
The Original 7 Mercury Astronauts
President John F. Kennedy visits Cape Canaveral
Mercury
May 5, 1961 — Alan Shepard
First American In Space.
Feb. 20, 1962 — John Glenn
First American To Orbit Earth.
1963 —
1964 —
1965 —
1966 — “PAINT IT BLACK” (Rolling Stones)
MUSIC ’66 — Good Vibrations, Strangers In The Night, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ Eleanor Rigby, Summer In The City, Reach Out I’ll Be There, When A Man Loves A Woman.
1967 — Psychedelic Summer Of Love
Gemini
It Takes Two to Rendezvous
Gemini 4 (June 3, 1965)
Ed White (Space Walk)
Gemini 8 (March 16, 1966)
Neil Armstrong (Death Spiral)
Conquistador
Procol Harum
1967 —
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—yZ.
Voyager
Contact (1997)
THE GOLDEN RECORD
1977 — Cosmic Message In A Bottle.
Contact (Novel) 1985
Contact (Movie) 1997
Carl Sagan created a “Sounds of Earth” playlist to send into outer space aboard Voyager, NASA’s exploratory satellite. NASA’s primary interest was to see the photographs it took of the planets in our solar system, whereas Sagan, the astrophysicist was hoping his Golden Record would be discovered by a distant Extraterrestrial being [E.T.]
“Johnny B. Goode“
1958 — Chuck Berry
Lure Of The Moon
Jules Verne
Atocha
Mel Fisher
Christopher Columbus
The New World
Juan Ponce de Leon
Fountain of Youth
St. Augustine
Henry Morrison Flagler
Key West
Flagler’s Moon
Apollo
Tragic Beginning, Triumphant End.
Apollo 1
(January 21, 1967)
Gus Grissom
Ed White
Roger B. Chaffee
Apollo 8
(December 21-27, 1968)
EARTHRISE
Frank Borman
Jim Lovell
William Anders
In the Beginning, God Created the Heavens and the Earth.
Well, on the night I was born, I swear the Lord turned The Moon a Fire Red.”
— Jimi Hendrix (“Voodoo Child”)
“Voodoo Child”
Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland
1968 — Voodoo, Assassination, War & Hope.
((( premonition )))
“Earthrise” by Bill Anders (Apollo 8)
Apollo 11
July 16-24, 1969
ONE SMALL STEP ON THE MOON
Neil Armstrong (The Private Man)
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin (Commemorative Plates)
Michael Collins (All Alone)
Apollo 13
April 11-17, 1970
NEAR DISASTER
Jim Lovell
Jack Swigert
Fred Haise
Apollo 14
FEBRUARY 3, 1971
Special Delivery
“I Wanted To Be A Spaceman”
Harry Nilsson
Son of Schmilsson
((( >>> )))
JFK in Space by Robert Rauschenberg
“Magic Carpet Ride
Steppenwolf
1968 — Connecticut Summer
The Second
((( spaceidelic )))
COCOA TODAY — In 1971, Astronaut Alan Shepard delivered a “Special Edition” of Florida’s Space Age Newspaper, TO THE MOON. [APOLLO 14]
“BALL OF CONFUSION” (VIDEO) — In 1967, The Temptations described a World and America being ravaged by racism, war, and economic despair.
Naked Launch*
[STORY HERE]
Pretty As A Florida Picture — When photographer Spencer Tunick was looking for the picture to fill the “Florida” position in his 50-state “NAKED STATES TOUR” on which he and his wife, Krissy were driving across America, looking to take a nude (portrait) in all the United States. It was Missy, a University of Central Florida theater student in Orlando who called Spencer, who she had met at a Phish concert in Vermont, telling him she had a good idea, and that she wanted to be the subject of his PICTURE OF “FLORIDA.”
alligator
a.lligator*
PG1 — [From The Beginning]
PG2 — [Ride Captain Ride]
PG3 — [Into The ’80s]
PG4 — [TO THE MOON]
PG5 — [Lost In Space]
Summer ’69
1968 — For Earth Below (Apollo 8)
1969 — Gator On The Moon (Apollo 11)
1971 — Space Truckin’ (Apollo 14)
The “Astro” MixTapes
MOON SHOT (PLAYLIST)*
MOON SHOT (PBS) VIDEO [WATCH IT]
MOON (PLAYLIST)*
EARTH (PLAYLIST)*
Apollo 11
JULY 1969 — ALLIGATOR MOON
(JULY 8) GATOR IN WAITING
(JULY 11) A MATTER OF TENURE
(JULY 15) ANXIOUS MOON
(JULY 18) RESTING UP
(JULY 22) PIONEER STROLLING
(JULY 25) SPLASHING DOWN
Slow Ride To The Moon*
On The Alligator Road
w/ Charles Kuralt*
FLORIDA SUGAR
How Sweet Is It*
The Marstons Have Landed*
[A1A]*
Along The Atlantic Coast
[SR50]*
Weeki Wachee to The Moon
Day Tripping (#1.)*
Mysteries In The Florida Jungle
Day Tripping (#2.)*
Weeki Wachee to the Moon [SR50]
FLORIDA ROAD TRIPS
ROAD TRIPS (NOTES) 1.
ROAD TRIPS (NOTES) 2.
A Beach For All Seasons*
SUMMER
Apollo 14
FEBRUARY 3, 1971
Special Delivery
Back To The Moon
Artemis
APRIL 1, 2026 — After fifty five years, NASA sends men (and women) back to the Moon. (((VIDEO))) See it like a Native, including the drive north on Indian River Drive (The River Road) to the 1880s church, with a widow’s watch with a clear view of the Sacred Ground, across the Indian River Lagoon.
SPACEX (MARCH 31, 2026)
ARTEMIS (K’S BEACH)
ARTEMIS (A MOON TO REMEMBER)
ARTEMIS (IN THE SHADE)
SPACEX
MARCH 31, 2026
Artemis 2
APRIL 1, 2026
K’S BEACH
A MOON TO REMEMBER
SHADOW OF THE MOON
Sookie Sookie
1968 — Connecticut Summer
Steppenwolf The Second
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Ball of Confusion
1970 — Connecticut Summer
Temptation Psychedelic Soul
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Easy Rider
1969 — “Born to Be Wild,” the “theme” of the film Easy Rider, became an anthem, representing the end of the sixties, and sign of further bad, political times. Use of the American flag in the film (on the back of a denim jacket, and on both a motorcycle gas tank and helmet), upset those who supported Richard Nixon, and his execution of the war in Vietnam.
1971— For Ladies Only
Citing its lyrics and the inside photograph of a car, shaped like a penis, on the street alongside the Hollywood Walk of Fame, some critics called Steppenwolf’s For Ladies Only sexist. For me, at 13, watching my older cousin Maryanne open the record, I only saw a car that looked like a dick.
1973 — American Graffiti (Movie)
Apollo 8 “Earthrise” (1968)
Pink Floyd “Dark Side Of The Moon” (1973)
Sir Isaac Newton “Opticks” (1704)
Galileo “Starry Messenger“ (1609)
Caves of Altamira (36,000 BC)
Paleolithic (Stone-Age) Man
Discovered Santillana del Mar, Spain (1868)
Apollo 8
Earthrise
Christmas Eve (1968)
Genesis
Down To Earth (Back to Earth)
Feet On The Ground
Sunrise
Earthrise
Apollo 8
BALL OF CONFUSION ((video))
Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced,
Axis: Bold as Love,
Electric Ladyland,
Band of Gypsys,
Woodstock,
Live at The Fillmore East (69/70)
Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
Jim Morrison
The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Apollo 11
Cocoa TODAY
Florida’s Space Age Newspaper
1969 — Neil Armstrong
Vietnam
Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix
ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Cosmik Debris
Frank Zappa
1974 — Apostrophe
((( After the Collision )))
INDIALANTIC — Many “nice” days are seen at the end of the boardwalk at 5th Avenue (US192) and A1A in Indialantic Beach. SHAGG’S SURF SHOP, still standing today, sits halfway between Cocoa Beach and Sebastian Inlet, making it a frequent stop for 11-time World Surf Champion, Kelly Slater, and his high school mates.
28° 36′ 30.2 N 80° 36′ 15.6 W
Sacred Ground — At the east end of State Road 50, looking across the Indian River Lagoon, at Launch Complex #39 and the VAB rising out of the palmetto scrub that covers most of Cape Canaveral, the exact spot from where twelve American Astronauts left the Earth on their way to the Moon.
Hub’s Inn, the old, deteriorating corrugated metal building on the Indian River in Cocoa, once was a famous (sometimes infamous) seafood restaurant that throughout the 1920s and 1930s attracted the most discriminate fish eaters from around Florida, diners including Al Capone and his entourage who sailed his 70-foot motor yacht up the intracoastal waterway from his Spanish Mansion on Miami Beach. Hub’s closed in 1974, as did NASA’s Apollo program, five years after it had met president Kennedy’s (Man On The Moon) challenge.
Bungle In The Jungle
Jethro Tull
1974 — War Child
((( Interior Florida )))
All Summer Long
Beach Boys
All Summer Long
((( surfin’ safari )))
yT.
[FROM THE TOP]
Sebastian Inlet — The dividing line between Brevard and Indian River Counties, and known as one of the finest surf spots, not only in Florida, but on the entire east coast of the United States.
Patrick Air Force Base, Picnic Tables, 2nd Light, Touch and Gos, Pineda Causeway shortcut, U2 takeoff, F-16s across the Turnpike, Hawk chasing Eagle, Isuzu Trooper (Red) Targeted by a pair of A-10s. After NOT seeing Pink Floyd in a torrential rain at the Tangerine Bowl. On to Gainesville.
Lost In Space
[PLAYLIST]
alligator
Earthrise
“American Pie”
((( Apollo 8 )))
“A Day In The Life”
Beatles
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1968 — VooDoo, Assassination, and War
((( look ahead )))
“Living In The U.S.A.”
Steve Miller
1968 — & The Dark Side Of The Moon.
((( on the radio )))
“Space Cowboy”
Steve Miller
1969 — Brave New World
((( on the radio )))
“I Wanted To Be A Space Man”
Harry Nillson
“Fly Me To The Moon”
Frank Sinatra w/Count Basie
((( Apollo Theme )))
Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones, who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album This Time by Basie, which also included a version of “Fly Me to the Moon”.
“Fly Me to the Moon“, originally titled “In Other Words“, is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard. Frank Sinatra’s 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.
“Feel Like Flying”
Gino Vannelli
1978 — Brother to Brother
((( Future In The Sky )))
“Destination Moon”
Dinah Washington Dinah ’62
((( Luna Attraction )))
dave.
Home is where the rockets fly.
The Cape (Canaveral)
Canaveral National Seashore
SAND POINT
Titusville, Florida
MOSQUITO LAGOON
Playalinda Beach (Apollo Beach)
Sacred Ground
28°36′30.2″N 80°36′15.6″W
Complex #39 A/B
Last Stepping Stone to The Moon)
VAB
MERRITT ISLAND
Tropical Trail
Mather’s Bridge (Dragon Point)
COCOA BEACH
Banana River (Intracoastal)
Indian River (Lagoon)
CITRUS (Liquid Gold)
Harvey’s Grove
ROCKLEDGE
River Road (Indian River Drive)
COCOA (Village)
State Road 10
SR10 (Jacksonville / Neptune Beach / A1A)
JACKSONVILLE / ATLANTIC BEACH
State Road 20
SR20 (Niceville / Perry / Gainesville / Hawthorne / Palatka / Flagler Beach (SR100)
TALLAHASSEE / GAINESVILLE / PALATKA
State Road 30
SR30 (Mobile / Panama City / Perry)
PANHANDLE
State Road 40
SR40 (Rainbow Springs / Ocala National Forest / Silver Springs / Ocklawaha crossing)
YANKEETOWN / ORMOND BEACH
State Road 50
SR50 (Weeki Wachee / Orlando / Titusville / US1 VAB)
THE ROAD THROUGH TIME & SPACE
State Road 60
SR60 (Clearwater / Lake Wales / Vero Beach)
YEEHAW JUNCTION
State Road 70
SR70 (Fort Pierce / Okeechobee / Bradenton )
SR27 / LAKE PLACID /SEBRING
State Road 80
SR80 (Fort Myers / LaBelle / Lake Okeechobee / South Bay / Palm Beach)
RED TIDE / SUGAR / MAR A LAGO
State Road 90
SR90 (Monticello / Lake City / Jacksonville Beach)
PENSACOLA / TALLAHASSEE / JACKSONVILLE
“I Wanted To Be A Spaceman”
Harry Nilsson — Flash Gordon took the place of The Lone Ranger, and a young boy’s attention looked to the sky.
((( New Heroes )))
“Where The Boys Are”
State Road 50:
The Road Through Florida Space & Time …
((( looking up )))
“Fly Like An Eagle”
Steve Miller
King Biscuit Flower Hour
((( on the radio )))
The Bridge
Playing for Civil Rights
SPACE & TIME
FLORIDA ART & LITERATURE
Colors …
This is a Voyage into Sound
inst. of change
the players
instruments
November 19, 1997 — T.M. Shine and I met photographer Spencer Tunick and his girlfriend Krissy at Melissa’s off-campus (UCF) apartment in Orlando. From there we followed them east, on SR50, Florida’s historic road through Time & Space.
We came to the end of the road, in Titusville, and looked across the Indian River Lagoon to see Cape Canaveral, Complex 39, and the Vertical (Vehicle) Assembly Building. Sacred Ground, the spot from where all twelve men who walked on The Moon left the Earth.
Garland Jeffreys
Don’t Call Me Buckwheat
w/ Vernon Reid*