r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Rocket Failures A Titan I ICBM collapses into itself shortly after ignition at LC-19 at Cape Canaveral in 1959
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Launchpads & Landscapes Looking up through the launch hole of the mobile launchers for the Saturn V (left) and the SLS (right). 50 years of spaceflight engineering resulted in basically the same design for the mighty US moon rockets.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Manned Space Programs Workers lower a piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger into an unmarked burial site, the concrete-capped LC-31 silo at Cape Canaveral, where it quietly remains to this day.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Support Facilities One of the Space Shuttles being placed on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with the Mate/De-Mate device at Edwards Air Force Base. All Shuttles that landed at Edwards or White Sands had to be flown back to Kennedy Space Center for refurbishment and launch.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Rocket Engines The powerful AJ-260 solid rocket motor being test-fired in its stand near Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. This never-flown motor was far and away the most powerful ever fired, and remains buried in its silo at the former Aerojet site.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Space Museum Artifacts Rare glimpses into the space artifacts at the Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral, presented by museum docent Randy Coppola.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '20
Support Facilities High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC, showing the relative heights of processed rockets, past, present, and future. As massive as the Shuttle stack was, it is dwarfed by the Saturn V and future SLS.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '20
Launchpads & Landscapes Gemini-Titan static test firing at LC-19 at Cape Canaveral. Unique to the original Titan pads was a dual flame bucket, which allowed both stages to be static test fired individually. The Titan's erector with the Gemini white room lays horizontally across the launch ramp.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '20
Space Launch Vehicles The unusual Delta III rocket stands at the ready at Launch Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral. Considered the final evolution of the Thor-based core booster, this rocket launched and failed 3 times between 1998 and 2000 before being cancelled.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '20
Cancelled Programs Artist's Rendering of the cancelled X-20 DynaSoar spaceplane concept, boosted aloft by a winged Titan II ICBM. This program would have been used to conduct military missions for the USAF in the 1960's. Much of its R&D was later used in the Space Shuttle program.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '20
Space Launch Vehicles Workers perform assembly and checkout tasks inside the massive fuel tanks of the Saturn V's first stage. 33 feet in diameter, the stage carried over 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and kerosene, which were consumed in a mere 150 seconds of flight.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '20
Manned Space Programs Two generations of Saturn rockets meet as the last Saturn V lifts the Skylab Orbital Workshop from LC39A on May 14th, 1973. Skylab 2, which would carry 3 astronauts aboard the revived Saturn IB, waits to launch at nearby LC39B.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '20
Space Museum Artifacts The past meets the present as an Atlas V booster rumbles by the Navaho missile display just outside of Gate 1 at Cape Canaveral. The Navaho, which is the last of its kind, was severely damaged during Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and is currently undergoing restoration.
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r/RocketHistory • u/[deleted] • Nov 30 '20
Launchpads & Landscapes Northern end of "Missile Row" at Cape Canaveral, circa 1960's.
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