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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. Re:first by blackomegax · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.abandonedfl.com/int...

  2. Reminds me of Rocketdyne by wcrowe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These remind me of the old Rocketdyne facility near where I grew up in Southwest Missouri. There were a couple of huge rocket testing facilities out there, but they were shut down in the 60s (I think). Thirty years ago, I could take my Jeep and drive around out there and snoop around.

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  3. Re:Back in the days, lots of rocket activity by sconeu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SSFL (Santa Susanna Field Laboratory) was also the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history.

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