Lunch Trip 08 - CCAFS Museum trip

I have some old lunch trips that I took, but didn't have time to write about. One was a trip to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Museum. Normal people can't get to the museum unless you go to the KSC visitor center, but I can just show up whenever.

Greg and I started out in the firing room for pads 5 and 6 which were used in the Mercury Project. It was the site of America's first manned launch by Alan Shepard. Here's a pic of the firing room:


On the other side of the wall they have a computer used during launches. At the time, it was state-of-the-art. One of the things it did was take over commanding in the last few seconds before launch (i.e. demate umbilical, ignite engine, etc.) Here it is:

Operator Console

Main Computer

One of more than 50 modules. These things had different labels like Arithmetic and Memory

I took a picture of the Rocket yard (where pads 5 and 6 were, originally):



The astrochimps Ham and Enos were launched from these pads.

Ham, pre-flight

I'll end with a couple pics from the rocket yard:

Pershing II rocket (foreground)

Titan 2 Rocket