CANAVERAL TO KENNEDY NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER HISTORY FILM 71112
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- This pictorial history of the Kennedy Space Center begins with the first test firing of a rocket motor in 1951. It then goes on to contrast the primitive launch facilities of that era to the Kennedy Space Center complex of the Apollo program. The Kennedy Space Center was created for the Apollo manned lunar landing program, and has evolved to meet the changing needs of America's manned space program. At NASA's creation in 1958 during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, its launch operation was originally known as the Launch Operations Directorate (LOD), reporting to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. This consisted of a few buildings in the Industrial Area of Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, later known as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
President John F. Kennedy's 1961 goal of a lunar landing before 1970 required an expansion of launch operations to Merritt Island. NASA began land acquisition in 1962, buying title to 131 square miles (340 km2) and negotiating with the state of Florida for an additional 87 square miles (230 km2).[5] The major buildings in KSC's Industrial Area were designed by architect Charles Luckman.
On July 1, 1962, the site was named the Launch Operations Center, achieving equal status with other NASA centers; and on November 29, 1963, the facility was given its current name by President Lyndon B. Johnson under Executive Order 11129 following Kennedy's death.[7] Johnson's order joined both the civilian LOC and the military Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ("the facilities of Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range") under the designation "John F. Kennedy Space Center", spawning some confusion joining the two in the public mind. NASA Administrator James E. Webb clarified this by issuing a directive stating the Kennedy Space Center name applied only to the LOC, while the Air Force issued a general order renaming the military launch site Cape Kennedy Air Force Station
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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.
These movies are in between the industrial type films of the early days and the funky ones soon to come
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!
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
The correct term for the loading of propellant into the launch rockets isn't "Fuelling" it's "Tanking".