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Manuscript Map of the Kennedy Space Center During the Peak of the Apollo Space Program.
Nice, detailed manuscript map of the Kennedy Space center showing the layout of the US space program's most important site.
The map is highly detailed, showing the centers of activity at the station, including the Saturn, Mercury, Atlas, Gemini (active 1965-1966, dating the map), and Apollo sites that were the focus points for all these various projects. Detail extends inland to the NASA Industrial Area, on which construction was started in 1963.
This map shows the geography of the Kennedy Space Center at the time when it was most active, hosting a number of programs, all with the goal of getting an American on the moon. The Saturn program was focused on developing better rockets, the Gemini program (active until 1966) on getting Americans into low Earth orbit, and the Apollo program on finally getting to the moon.
Pads A, B, and C
Attached to Apollo Program Complex are 3 pads, 39A; 39B; and 39C; these are the largely identical pads from which supported the launches of the Apollo program, and later the Space Shuttle program. Interestingly, three pads are shown, instead of two. Only A and B were ever built, while C was only proposed. This proposal was made in 1963 (initially, C and D were proposed but these were combined), and the proposal appears to have fallen off by the mid-to-late-1960s. Pad C was finally built to the south of Pad A (not to the north of Pad B, as shown), in 2015, for smaller payload launches.
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