Saturday, August 8, 2015
Haunting Photographs of Deserted US Space Launch Sites
Roland Miller has been photographing space exploration-related facilities for more than 25 years. His Abandoned In Place project is a photographic exploration of the now-deserted American space launch and research facilities that played a crucial role in the early period of space exploration.
V2 launch site with Hermes A-1 rocket, launch complex 33 gantry, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 2006Horizontal gantry from base, Gemini Titan Complex 19, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1991
Mobile service tower platforms, Atlas Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 2005
Apollo Saturn F1 engine cluster diptych, Nasa Johnson Space Centre, Texas, 1996
Telemetry receivers, strip chart recorders, and tape recorders, Blockhouse, Redstone Launch Complex 26, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 2000
Launch ring, Launch Complex 34 (Apollo Saturn), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1990
Launch ring restored, Apollo Saturn Complex 34, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 2000
Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo test models, Spin Test Tunnel Office, Nasa Langley Research Centre, Virginia, 1997
Wind tunnel test chamber with model, 7 X 10 foot wind tunnel, Nasa Langley Research Centre, Virginia, 1997
Fan motor housing, 7 X 10 foot wind tunnel, Nasa Langley Research Centre, Virginia, 1997
Shelter dome, Rubber Room, Launch Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, 1996
Blockhouse, Apollo Saturn Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1992
Fuel tank, Lunar Module, Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Centre, Kansas, 2002
Liquid fuel tank support, Apollo Saturn Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1993
Flooded room beneath Pad 19, Gemini Titan Complex 19, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1992
Flame deflector tracks, Apollo Saturn Complex 34, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, 1992
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