IMAGE 100_199\103.Lbm,An aerial view of Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center. It is dominated by the massive VAB. In the background is the shuttle runway.
IMAGE 500_599\557.Lbm,Decorating the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center are the 'Stars and Stripes' and the bicentennial symbol painted on it in America's bicentennial year, 1976.
IMAGE 600_699\645.Lbm,Sunset at Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center. Silhouetted on the skyline are at left the VAB and, close to the glowing orb of the Sun, a Saturn V launch tower.
IMAGE 300_399\307.Lbm,The hub of Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, the towering VAB; to the bottom left is the launch control centre. This 1969 picture shows a Saturn V/Apollo stack beginning its journey by crawler transporter to the launch pad.
IMAGE 100_199\101.Lbm,The STS-26 shuttle stack being manoeuvred into position on the Complex 39B launch pad, to be prepared for the first flight since the Challenger disaster. This is a fine view of the launch site.
IMAGE 200_299\292.Lbm,The shuttle stack for the STS-61A/Spacelab D1 mission starting its journey from the VAB along the crawlerway to the launch pad.
IMAGE 0_99\28.Lbm,Perched atop the shuttle carrier aircraft, Columbia begins its journey from Edwards Air Force Base to the Kennedy Space Center in March 1979.
IMAGE 200_299\294.Lbm,A board at the site of launch complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, site of the Mercury launches into space, lists the first Americans in orbit. At left is a monument to the "Original Seven".
IMAGE 200_299\293.Lbm,A view of the launch pad area of Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center before the first shuttle flight (STS-1). The board details successful previous launches from the site.
IMAGE 200_299\291.Lbm,One of the beehive blockhouses at Cape Canaveral used as launch control centres for firing early launch vehicles, such as Redstones and Titans.
IMAGE 200_299\288.Lbm,The rocket park at the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center, where examples of early US space hardware can be seen, including at left the Mercury-Redstone and Mercury-Atlas vehicles and at right the Gemini-Titan.
IMAGE 200_299\289.Lbm,A full-size replica of the Apollo lunar roving vehicle at the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center.
IMAGE 200_299\290.Lbm,The size of the Apollo lunar module can be appreciated from the full-size replica at the Kennedy Space Center's Visitors Centre.
IMAGE 500_599\556.Lbm,At the Kennedy Space Center's Visitors Center, a telephone kiosk shaped like a Mercury capsule.
IMAGE 500_599\587.Lbm,The press site at Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on the occasion of the first flight of Columbia and the space shuttle, April 12, 1981.
IMAGE 600_699\646.Lbm,The countdown clock at the press site at Kennedy Space Center showing just over 7 minutes before the launch of the first space shuttle (STS-1). The tension is tangible.
IMAGE 600_699\652.Lbm,A notice at the Kennedy Space Center, cautioning visitors not to molest the alligators!
IMAGE 600_699\651.Lbm,The Kennedy Space Center forms part of the Merritt Island Wildlife Reserve, and boasts large numbers of alligators.
IMAGE 200_299\287.Lbm,The Kennedy Space Center forms part of the Merritt Island Wildlife Reserve and is an important conservation area, where several pairs of bald eagle, the US national bird, nest.
