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Author Miller, Roland, 1958- author.

Title Abandoned in place : preserving America's space history / by Roland Miller ; foreword by Roger D. Launius ; prologue by Bob Thall ; introduction by Betsy Fahlman ; essays by Craig Covault, Pamela Melroy, and Beth Laura O'Leary
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016
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Contents Cover -- Contents -- Abandon in Place -- FOREWORD: Recapturing Our Youth -- PROLOGUE: Then and Now -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Shooting for the Moon: The Fine Art of Space -- CHAPTER 1 First Steps -- CHAPTER 2 Mercury Redstone/Atlas -- CHAPTER 3 Research Facilities -- CHAPTER 4 Gemini Titan -- CHAPTER 5 Full Circle with the Cape's Mighty Launch Pads 40 and 41 -- CHAPTER 6 Apollo Saturn -- Remembering Pad 34 -- CHAPTER 7 The Cultural Heritage of the Moon -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary Roland Miller's color photographs document the NASA, Air Force, and Army facilities across the nation that once played a crucial role in the space race
Notes Includes index
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Subject Launch complexes (Astronautics) -- Florida -- Cape Canaveral -- History
Astronautics -- United States -- History
Abandoned buildings -- Florida -- Cape Canaveral
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
Abandoned buildings
Astronautics
Launch complexes (Astronautics)
Friches industrielles.
Conquête de l'espace.
Vaisseaux spatiaux.
Photographie industrielle.
Florida -- Cape Canaveral
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015007796
ISBN 9780826356260
0826356265