Visit to Kennedy Space Center for Launch of STS-104
    7/12/01

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    The obligatory stop at Gatorland.
    Mary loves the gators.
    In front of the Vehicle Assembly
    Building and
    Launch Control Center (left).
    Shuttle Discovery (STS-105)
    sitting on the pad ready for launch in 
    August.  We did not get to the space 
    center in time to visit Atlantis (STS-104)
    on the pad, but this was just as good.
    We videotaped the 104 launch.
    Mary with Discovery in the
    background (pad 39A).  This was taken from
    the northernmost point on the
    road in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
    before you need an escort for access
    to the launch pads.  It was 100 feet
    from the beach.

    Same spot.  There was an astronaut
    jogging on the beach next to us.
    NASA has a secret beach house near
    this spot for astronauts and their
    families.

    This marker is the only thing designating
    launch complex 34, where the
    Apollo 1 astronauts died.
    The pad at launch complex 34.
    The marker is on the column at right.

    Marker on the Canaveral Air Station
    road at the entrance to launch complex 14.
    This is where John Glenn
    launched on the first US orbital flight.
    The Mercury 7 memorial at the entrance
    to launch complex 14.
    We had beach access at launch
    complex 34.  Nobody on the beach
    as far as you could see.  We had
    the cape to ourselves!
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