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Sorry, I couldn't resist the symbolism of this photo given the uncertainly of NASA's manned spaceflight program in the Summer of 2010. |
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The Apollo-Saturn Launch Control Center | |
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| Five F-1 engines of Saturn V first-stage. | The mighty Saturn V F-1 engine. | Five J-2 engines of the Saturn V second stage. |
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| Single J-2 engine powering the Saturn V third-stage | Reaction control motors on the Service Module. | Interior of the Apollo Lunar Module. |
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Apollo 14 Command Module Kitty Hawk on display at the Saturn V Center. This spacecraft was flown into lunar orbit on a mission that launched 31 January 1971 with astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard. |
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| Lunar EVA spacesuit of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. | Lunar EVA spacesuit of Alan B. Shepard, Jr. | An Apollo spacesuit lunar EVA glove. |
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Alan Shepard's Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. It's so cool that Shepard's car is preserved and displayed at KSC. I lived in Satellite Beach, Florida, through the entire decade of the 1960s, and the sleek, fast, Corvette, driven by an astronaut probably symbolizes the time and place better than any other symbol, even more so than the rockets that took them into space. |
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| Mercury Mission Control Center | ||
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The Gemini 9A spacecraft that was launched into Earth orbit on 3 June 1966 carrying astronauts Command Pilot Thomas P. Stafford and Pilot Eugene A. Cernan on a 3-day mission. |
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