Duh Kennedy Space Center Tour

With the recent discussion on the preservation of space
hardware to educate future generations, I offer these
examples of the "educated". ;-)


I found an interesting website documenting
the visit of one tourist to Kennedy Space Center.

"View from the stairs of the VAB" (Huh?)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/29.html

"One of the earliest rockets" (Well kind of.)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/38.html

"Von Braun's early rocket" (Dr. Goddard must be surprised.)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/39.html

"Rocket launch pad" (I thought the launch pads were a little further
apart.)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/44.html

"Mercury capsule" (John Glenn must be surprised.)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/45.html

"Rocket for Mercury launches" (Wally Schirra must be surprised.)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/47.html

"View across bay of launch pad 39B and VAB" (All this time NASA's been
using the wrong pads to launch the Shuttle.)
http://www.amber.org/~petrilli/galle.../Pages/10.html



Yet A different KSC tourist:

"This is the actual space suit worn by Jim Lovell from the Apollo 13
mission." (That must be why there is an Apollo 17 patch on it.)
http://dave.titandomain.com/pictures/trip2ksc_day3.asp


And another one:

"The best view of Pad 34A (where every US manned mission has been
launched) on the tour" (NASA's been using the wrong pad again for all
the manned missions.)
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~marcsulf/orlando98.html


"The second stage J1 engines of the Saturn V. The first rocket engines
ever developed to use hydrogen fuel." (Hmmm. The 'J-1' must be an
earlier version. It also must have been made prior to the RL-10.)
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~marcsulf/orlando98.html

"The single J1 engine on the third stage of the Saturn V along with
the lunar lander" (Got the number of engines right.)
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~marcsulf/orlando98.html

Tourists!

"Saturn V Rocket J2 Engines Taken by Trish" (Next time don't let Trish
take the picture.)
http://www.wdisneyw.co.uk/photoksc5.html

And another:

"Here we saw a Saturn rocket, this rocket only had 8 engines, it's the
one laying on it's side in the background." (The poor Redstone only
has 1.)
http://www.scoutband.com/1999trd6.html


Even mo

"One of the only three remaining Mercury mission rockets. It's
absolutely positively enormous." (If that's a "Mercury mission rocket"
I'd hate to see an Apollo one.)
http://www.sirota.org/josh/rvtrip/1023/


An Italian Tourist:

"Apollo 13 fig.1 Primo stadio contenente la capsula degli astronauti
si intravede in fondo la cisterna del carburante" (Six successful
Apollo moon landings, but the famous one is the one that failed.)
http://www.poz.it/nasa1.htm


And a Germain Tourist:

"This is one that returned from the moon." (Damn! You learn something
everyday. A LM that returned from the moon!)
http://www.rubengehb.de/pictureFlorida.htm




Another tourist visits the Atomic Museum, New Mexico:

"I have no idea what the missile is on the right, but that's an Atlas
warhead to the left." (It's a Minuteman missile and a Titan II Mk.6
warhead.)

"Again, I have forgotten what this is..." (Jupiter IRBM.)
http://www.wedaa.com/~wedaa/eric/am/am_misc/

"And to think, somebody strapped themselves into a little capsule on
the top of one of these things. Can you say 'Spam in a can'?"
(Yea, it's really cramped up there with the 6,000 lb nuke on a
Redstone MRBM.)
http://www.wedaa.com/~wedaa/eric/am/am_redst/


"These photo of the Atlas Missile were taken sometime in the Summer or
Fall of 1997 at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque New Mexico"
(That's either a Titan II iCBM or the Atlas is one engine short!)
http://www.wedaa.com/~wedaa/eric/am/am_atlas/index.html



- Rusty Barton