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To complement the last lot, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Al Shepard's flight next Thursday, some historical stuff:
Cocoa Beach:
The sign at the LaQuinta Motel; formerly known as Cape Colony:
The old Glass Bank Building; the top floor here used to be "Ramon's Rainbow Room", a popular nightclub haunt of the Mercury 7 astronauts.
LC-26: often considerd the birthplace of the US Space Program, and site of the first successful US satellite launch.
The Blockhouse
The control room
The guidance computer: by the time of the Apollo program, this had been reduced the the size of a loaf of bread.....
Sitting atop LC-26A, from where Explorer 1 was launched, a Juno mockup. The red object bottom left is the old three-storey Gemini white room from LC-19, used by all the Gemini crews to enter the capsule, and for spacecraft checkout and launch prep.
Cocoa Beach:
The sign at the LaQuinta Motel; formerly known as Cape Colony:
![11-03-30_img_1308.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-03-30_img_1308.jpg)
The old Glass Bank Building; the top floor here used to be "Ramon's Rainbow Room", a popular nightclub haunt of the Mercury 7 astronauts.
![11-03-31_img_0907-Edit.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-03-31_img_0907-Edit.jpg)
LC-26: often considerd the birthplace of the US Space Program, and site of the first successful US satellite launch.
The Blockhouse
![11-04-01_img_1243.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1243.jpg)
The control room
![11-04-01_img_1238.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1238.jpg)
![11-04-01_img_1239.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1239.jpg)
![11-04-01_img_1224.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1224.jpg)
![11-04-01_img_1232.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1232.jpg)
The guidance computer: by the time of the Apollo program, this had been reduced the the size of a loaf of bread.....
![11-04-01_img_1233.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1233.jpg)
Sitting atop LC-26A, from where Explorer 1 was launched, a Juno mockup. The red object bottom left is the old three-storey Gemini white room from LC-19, used by all the Gemini crews to enter the capsule, and for spacecraft checkout and launch prep.
![11-04-01_img_1285.jpg](http://www.thejordans.org.uk/images/11-04-01_img_1285.jpg)
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