[ EXPLORE ]
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Last Stepping Stone to the Moon
The Lure of the Moon
Earthrise
“God Created the Heavens
and The Earth.”
Apollo 8
Christmas Eve [1968]
Voyager
Carl Sagan’s Message in a bottle …
“Johnny B. Goode” b/ Chuck Berry
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Carl Sagan’s (Planet Earth) Mix tape runs five hours, the time Sagan had to edit an audio representation of the human race’s celestial home … Hoping, of course, that beings from another world might receive the message.
“This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.” — President Jimmy Carter
NASA
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
1950 — Until NASA decided Cape Canaveral would be the spot from which it would launch American Astronauts into Outer Space, the sixty mile stretch along Florida’s East Coast was know for its Indian River Citrus, and it’s harsh (many believed uninhabitable) tropical environment … A better home to the creatures that dominated the wetlands, west of the mainland, Indian River shore.
— NASA
THE ORIGINAL 7
MERCURY
• Alan Shepard — First American In Space
May 5, 1961
• John Glenn — First American To Orbit
Friendship 7
February 20, 1962
Three Orbits
Dangerous Re-Entry
GEMINI
(It takes two to rendezvous)
GEMINI 4
June 1965
Four Days / 66 Orbits
James McDivitt
Ed White — First Space Walk
circled the Earth 66 times in four days,
First US flight to approach the five-day flight of the Soviet Vostok 5.
— NASA
GEMINI 8
March 1966
NEIL ARMSTRONG
David Scott
TARGET VEHICLE
Two launches from the Cape that day
AGENA (Target Vehicle)
GEMINI 8 w/Armstrong and Scott
After a SUCCESSFUL DOCKING,
a DEATH SPIRAL RECOVERY.
PAD 39 (A/B)
Last Stepping Stone To The Moon
VAB
SATURN V ROCKET
— NASA
July 16, 1969 — The Saturn V rocket was so large that it could be seen (atop the flame), from 15 miles away, with the naked eye.
Apollo
Apollo 1: Tragic Beginning
Launch date: February 21, 1967 (scheduled)
Gus Grissom —
Ed White —
Roger B. Chaffee —
Earthrise
APOLLO 8
Christmas Eve 1968
GENESIS
VietNam
“God Created The Heavens and The Earth”
— Sistine Chapel b/ Michelangelo
Apollo 11
July 16, 1969
PAD 39A
Cape Canaveral, Florida)
THE MOON
July 20, 1969
One Small Step for Man,
One Giant Leap for Mankind.
Neil Armstrong — [FOOTPRINT]
Buzz Aldrin (Lobbied to be the first man on the Moon.)
Michael Collins (Orbiting overhead, anxious and alone.)
LED ZEPPELIN — The Hindenburg (1937)
CHALLENGER — (1986) EXPLOSION/DISASTER
“Major Malfunction”
b/ Keith Leblanc (Fats Comet/Tack>>Head)
[ “SEE” ]
— a photojournalist
looking to “see” florida.