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NASA's Abandoned Launch Facilities

Posted by samzenpus on from the lost-in-time dept.

trazom28 writes I ran across an interesting slideshow of NASA's abandoned launch facilities. It's an interesting piece of scientific history. The images are from "photographer Roland Miller's upcoming book, Abandoned in Place. The book is a visual study of the deactivated launch and research facilities that played an essential role in early American space exploration.

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  1. Me depressed now by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wouldn't be so bad if this were just part of a natural evolution of NASA. But at its heart it's the result of the dramatic slashing of the NASA budget after Apollo, the end of the "space race," and constant political interference (mostly in the form of pork projects that Congressmen wanted NASA to lend credibility to). NASA is a sad shell of its 1960's self, and these facilities are a very literal reminder of that fact.

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