Location
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Start Date
8-1963 12:00 AM
Description
IN THE RACE for the moon, the Saturn rocket system is carrying the colors of our country. This rocket system is composed of parts that come from localities spread throughout the United States; however, the payoff window is at Cape Canaveral. It is there that all the various systems, scientists, astronauts, engineers, and dollars combine to work together to launch, first experimental probes, then orbital missions and unmanned surveys of the moon and other planets followed by the culmination for this decade-manned lunar landing and return to earth.
A vital part of the entire complicated, far reaching program is the construction work required to produce the exotic facilities that are used by the NASA scientists and engineers to launch these giant rockets. This construction work is made up of the simple and commonplace, such as clearing the palmettos with bulldozers to the difficult and complex, such as fabricating a 6000 pound test pipe line made of a new type of bimetalic pipe to carry nitrogen or helium gas.
Construction of the Saturn Launch Facilities
Cocoa Beach, Florida
IN THE RACE for the moon, the Saturn rocket system is carrying the colors of our country. This rocket system is composed of parts that come from localities spread throughout the United States; however, the payoff window is at Cape Canaveral. It is there that all the various systems, scientists, astronauts, engineers, and dollars combine to work together to launch, first experimental probes, then orbital missions and unmanned surveys of the moon and other planets followed by the culmination for this decade-manned lunar landing and return to earth.
A vital part of the entire complicated, far reaching program is the construction work required to produce the exotic facilities that are used by the NASA scientists and engineers to launch these giant rockets. This construction work is made up of the simple and commonplace, such as clearing the palmettos with bulldozers to the difficult and complex, such as fabricating a 6000 pound test pipe line made of a new type of bimetalic pipe to carry nitrogen or helium gas.
