Monday, November 24, 2014

NASA's abandoned launch sites

American photographer Roland Miller has spent 25 years photographing NASA's facilities around the United States. With the rise of private programs though, many of those sites are now being left abandoned. 

For his latest book, Abandoned in Place, Miller visited 16 space launch sites and research facilities in areas including Virginia, Florida and California, taking readers on a “photographic exploration of the American space launch and research facilities that played a crucial role in the early period of space exploration. The goals of this project are to preserve and portray these abandoned, deactivated, and repurposed sites through photography that surpasses the official government approach to documentation and to lend historical and artistic insight to the subject.”

Among the facilities he visited, always accompanied by an escort, were the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and the Kennedy Space Center at the Cape Canaveral in Florida.




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V2 Launch Site with Hermes A-1 Rocket, Launch Complex 33 Gantry, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 2006


Launch Complex 36 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station


Horizontal Gantry from Base, Gemini Titan Complex 19, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1991









Fuel tank for a lunar module at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, 2002


Catacombs, Apollo Saturn V F1 Engine Test Stand, Edwards Air Force Base, California, 1998


Saturn V F1 engine at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida


Plug Board, Blockhouse, Redstone Complex 26, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 2000





Navaho Complex 9 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station




Liquid fuel tanks used for the Apollo program, Launch Complex 37


Blockhouse, Apollo Saturn Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1992


Flooded Room Beneath Pad 19, Gemini Titan Launch Complex 19, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1992


A launch ring restored at the Apollo Saturn Complete 34


A Nasa logo at Mercury Mission Control in Florida


A dome at the Rubber Room Launch Pad 39B in the Kennedy Space Center


Wind Tunnel Test Chamber with Model, 7 X 10 Foot Wind Tunnel, NASA Langley Research Center, Virginia, 1997


Bolts, Atlas Complex 13, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1991


Cable Tunnel, Gemini Titan Complex 19, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1993

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