But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the manned lunar mission, so land acquisition was started in July 1961 for a Launch Operations Center ( LOC ) immediately north of Canaveral at Merritt Island.

Under Webb's reorganization, the directors of the Manned Spacecraft Center ( Gilruth ), Marshall Space Flight Center ( von Braun ), and the Launch Operations Center ( Debus ) effectively reported to Mueller.

As it is currently configured, the launch site features structures similar to Boeing's Delta IV SLC-37 launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with a Fixed Umbilical Tower, Mobile Service Tower, Fixed Pad Erector, Launch Control Center and Operations Building, and a Horizontal Integration Facility.

The first NASA launch facility there ( Launch Complex 39 ) was designed and operated by MSFC, then in on July 1, 1962, the overall site achieving equal status with other NASA centers and was named the Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ).

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

As it ran past midnight, when the time changed from 2400 to 0001 the computer could not handle it and " turned into a pumpkin " according to an interview with Frank Bryan, a Kennedy Space Center Launch Vehicle Operations Engineering staff member.

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

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* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

For the Space Shuttle, weather " outlooks " provided by the U. S. Air Force Range Weather Operations Facility at Cape Canaveral begin at Launch minus 5 days in coordination with the NOAA National Weather Service Spaceflight Meteorology Group at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

In October 1990, following his retirement from NASA and the Navy, McCulley was employed by Lockheed Martin Space Operations and served as Vice President and Deputy Launch Site Director for the Kennedy Space Center.

One way that the filmmakers tried to enhance the realism of the film was through the use of such items as the actual Plantronics headsets worn by the actors in the spacecraft, as well as authentic replicas of actual facilities such as the Mission Operations Control Room ( MOCR ) at Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Air Force Launch Control Center ( AFLCC ) at Cape Canaveral AFS.

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations.

* Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations.

* LADO Launch and Early Orbit, Anomaly Resolution and Disposal Operations ( LADO )

Kregel was assigned to the Space Launch Initiative Project, Engineering Directorate, Johnson Space Center, until 2003, when he decided to retire from NASA.

* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

* 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

* 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.

* 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

* 2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery ( OV-103 ).

* 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.

* 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket

* 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

* 1965 – Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.

* 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

* Launch Complex 39 – Pad A

* Launch Complex 39 – Pad B

* 1959 – Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d ' Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.

* 1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.

* 1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner,.

* 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

* 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet / asteroid mission

* 2007 – Chang ' e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

* 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

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* 2006: Accessory Brand Launch – Accessories Council Excellence ( ACE ) Awards