Sunday, July 20, 2008

Lunch Trip 2

Complex 34 is a launch site on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base that was used for the Apollo program. It was where the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B rockets were launched. It was officially opened on June 5th 1961. This is what it looked like, back in the day:



Complex 34 has since been deconstructed. Greg and I could drive right up to the big circular concrete area (where the rocket is in the picture above). We parked right next to the giant flame deflectors. All that is left is the launch tower, flame thingys and a memorial to the crew of Apollo 1 who died. Here's a pic of that:


One structure that is kind of cool is the this tunnel that goes from the blockhouse to the pad. Well anyway, here are the rest of the pics i took. Next Lunch trip is a couple of launch complexes.