Wednesday October 24, 2007 - CAPE CANAVERAL AF STATION: Our tour bus stopped only at the entrance to LC 19, launch pad for the 2-Astronaut Gemini Titan launches of the mid 1960's. The pad and its surrounding facilities are all but gone now. The NASA photo on the right is the launch of Gemini-Titan XI on 12 September 1966, with Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon onboard. In the immediate background to the far left is the umbilical tower for Launch Complex 34 (see the blog on LC-34), and in the distance (7.6 miles away) you can see a test-Saturn V rocket on the pad at the "new" LC-39A... today it's the launch pad for the Space Shuttle. Click on the photos for a larger view.
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