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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 19437226" data-attributes="member: 158020">-NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites- The Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo Missions of the late 1950s and 60s  still remain one of NASA’s greatest achievements — one that enabled  humans, for the first time in history, to leave the surface of the Earth  for another heavenly body. This monumental task was made possible  through the hard work and genius of thousands of engineers, and the  incredible infrastructure they built along the coast of Florida. With  the advent of reusable rockets, private space programs and a change in  NASA’s goals, unfortunately, many of these facilities were abandoned and  left to the elements. American photographer Roland Miller  has spent 25 years documenting these buildings in his photographs  before they rot and crumble to the ground. Indeed, Miller estimates that  about half of the locales he shot have already disappeared since he  started shooting.   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QEBA4l4K-5M/Vm_gfGlfqZI/AAAAAAAAc8s/ebox1yy3cJ0/s1600/v2-launch_site_wsmr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   (V2 Launch Site with Hermes A-1 Rocket, Launch Complex 33 Gantry,  White Sands Missile Range, NM, 2006. “One of the earliest launch  complexes built. Used to test launch captured German V2 rockets. Many of  the features in LC 33's blockhouse made there way into other  blockhouses at Cape Canaveral--like multiple panes of glass laminated  together to allow for protected viewing of the launch from the  blockhouse.” )    The project began in 1988 when Miller, a photography instructor at  Brevard Community College, was contacted by an environmental engineer at  Cape Canaveral Air Force Station who needed help disposing of old  photographic chemicals at the facility. Hoping to snag the free stuff  from the photo lab, Miller visited Launch Complex 19 of Gemini Program,  and was immediately awestruck by the way it was slowly rusting away. Miller has been obsessed with space for as long as he could remember.  His own dreams of becoming an astronaut were dashed to the ground by his  but poor eyesight. Seeing the deteriorating buildings, Miller resolved  photograph them while there was still time.   It took two years of haggling with NASA officials before he was  finally allowed permission to visit the ruins. Since then he has visited  16 space launch sites, research facilities, and museums, in Virginia,  Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Utah, New  Mexico, and California. Miler has now successfully raised over $25,000  through Kickstarter to publish a photography book titled “Abandoned in  Place” which is scheduled to be published in January of 2016.   <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aUNcLv9YVVk/Vm_gfvS2wRI/AAAAAAAAc84/YA7H2RiWzrQ/s1600/wind_tunnel_test_chamber_with_model.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Wind Tunnel Test Chamber with Model, 7 X 10 Foot Wind Tunnel, NASA Langley Research Center, VA, 1997.)   <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LfbRX9Gq-8s/Vm_gcwSxyGI/AAAAAAAAc7w/sKC41r_jlCQ/s1600/horizontal_gantry_from_base.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Horizontal Gantry from Base, Gemini Titan Complex 19, Cape Canaveral  Air Force Station, FL, 1991. “This was the first abandoned launch pad I  visited. It was 1988. I was amazed that the light bulbs were mostly  intact 22 years after the last Gemini mission. The erector at Pad 19 was  hinged at the base, and lowered before every launch. After the final  launch, it was left horizontal.”)   <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1-LvKWUouoM/Vm_gdb3vamI/AAAAAAAAc78/c1LRJ9Q95Pc/s1600/ksc_c39_rubber_room.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Shelter Dome, Rubber Room, Launch Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL,  1996. “Adjoining the Rubber Room was a Shelter Dome room with the floor  set on springs to isolate the occupants from whatever conflagration may  be occurring above them as they seek shelter.”)   <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kRuTBfrTumQ/Vm_gdhcMMdI/AAAAAAAAc8E/YxyqhIU2RjU/s1600/launch_ring_restored.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Launch Ring Restored, Apollo Saturn Complex 34, Cape Canaveral Air  Force Station, FL, 2000. “In 1998, the launch ring at Complex 34 was  sandblasted and painted to protect it from weathering. I had been trying  for years to capture the spiritual quality of this site. I made this  photograph near sunset with the blue sky reflecting on the launch  pedestal and the last pink rays of sunlight illuminating the ring and  clouds behind.”)   <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lftF9QQXx5o/Vm_gd7urteI/AAAAAAAAc8Q/nOMe5JYO06E/s1600/liquid_fuel_tank_support.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Liquid Fuel Tank Support, Apollo Saturn Complex 37, Cape Canaveral  Air Force Station, FL, 1993. “There were two of these fuel pressure  spheres near the entrance to Launch Complex 37. One has been repurposed  and is now used to support Delta IV rocket launches. The other sphere  was removed.”)   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YBRomEhk1PM/Vm_geO1T5JI/AAAAAAAAc8Y/3M8ETYrfUHY/s1600/mobile_service_tower_platforms.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Mobile Service Tower Platforms, Atlas Launch Complex 36B, Cape  Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, 2005. “I photographed Atlas Launch  Complex 36B while it was being decommissioned. The mobile service towers  of Pads A and B were imploded in 2007. Launch Complex 36 on Cape  Canaveral Air Force Station sent Surveyor, Mariner, and Pioneer missions  on their way to explore the Moon and the planets of our solar system.”)   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NKWB3YjBq7o/Vm_gesSMY5I/AAAAAAAAc8g/wnUPm6ZleGQ/s1600/svc_center_engine_bell.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Saturn V F1 Center Engine, Saturn V Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL,  1997. “I was asked, in 1997, to photograph the newly opened Saturn V  Center, including access to a high-lift for vantage points like this  view of the center Saturn V F1 engine.”)   <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zFU9y0_WZw0/Vm_gfHxxkDI/AAAAAAAAc8o/gAmlpLk78fk/s1600/telemetry_receivers_etc_lc_26_blockhouse.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Telemetry Receivers, Strip Chart Recorders and Tape Recorders,  Blockhouse, Redstone Launch Complex 26, Cape Canaveral, FL, 2000. “A  stop on one of the Kennedy Space Center bus tours. The blockhouse is  often staffed by retired NASA employees who actually worked in the  blockhouse and on the Redstone rocket. They explain the procedures and  technology of the day.”)   <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HrO_EF_CuWQ/Vm_gkFro65I/AAAAAAAAc9Q/NuLQ7KUC8tQ/s1600/roland-miller-abandoned-places-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Launch Ring, Launch Complex 34, (Apollo Saturn) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.)   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TZNYy_xb3Ys/Vm_gbTghiTI/AAAAAAAAc7Y/xCnsFprBcNc/s1600/blockhouse.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Blockhouse, Apollo Saturn Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force  Station, FL, 1992. “Many of these abandoned space launch and test  facilities bring to mind other archeological sites. This blockhouse  reminded me of a pyramid or ziggurat.”)   <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JUqGOO47XpI/Vm_gb89XRkI/AAAAAAAAc7g/9ii07qMhZ4c/s1600/f1-engine_cluster.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Apollo Saturn F1 Engine Cluster, NASA Johnson Space Center, TX, 1996.  “I made this image laying on my back with my camera on my face in a  light rain. I enjoy the visual reference to Nefertiti.”)   <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FYWgcOvtcdI/Vm_gbuUeWTI/AAAAAAAAc7c/_0SpMjzW5KM/s1600/flooded_room_beneath_pad.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Flooded Room Beneath Pad 19, Gemini Titan Launch Complex 19, Cape  Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, 1992. “This is an image of a large  square girder in a flooded compartment beneath the launch pad. What I  couldn't have predicted were the swirling reflections of light in the  water coming from openings in the roof. They looked like little  galaxies.” )   <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JkO6ragN83w/Vm_gcrl3hEI/AAAAAAAAc7k/nDjVMDI-R-M/s1600/fuel_tank_kcsc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Fuel Tank, Lunar Module, Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, KS,  2002. “I photographed this fuel tank while it was in storage, attracted  to the amazing colors the oxidation created.” )   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EuePrekNBFE/Vm_gcv1g6NI/AAAAAAAAc70/PaL7ftrtihg/s1600/gemini_mercury_and_apollo_test_models.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo Test Models, Spin Test Tunnel Office,  NASA Langley Research Center, VA, 1997. “I asked the staff if I could  photograph these models. I was planning on photographing right where  they were. When I returned from photographing the Spin Test Tunnel, the  staff had set them on the counter showing off the scientific  illustrations on the blackboard behind them — a wonderful background.” )   <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HOekQaxdVS4/Vm_gj2BWbzI/AAAAAAAAc9I/iQ8YDVTnVYE/s1600/roland-miller-abandoned-places-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Launch Control Room. Titan II ICBM Silo 395-C. Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.)   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tUA_4ic6NsI/Vm_gj4tDY3I/AAAAAAAAc9M/RKOVY6XgL5Y/s1600/roland-miller-abandoned-places-3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Apollo 1 Fire Commemorative Blockhouse Service. Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida)</blockquote>

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