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Correspondent David Lee, who covered the moon landings in the '60s, recently revisited Cape Canaveral and the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. His report...
Florida's briny ocean winds ceaselessly whine through the deserted tower on Cape Canaveral's Pad 14, where John Glenn rocketed into space on Feb. 20, 1962, to become the first American to orbit the earth. The spindly tower sways under the gusts, and bits of rusting steel are flecked into the jumble of weeds and decaying cables entwined around its feet...
...beaches near by, where thousands once stood to cheer man's reach to the moon, loggerhead turtles have taken over again. Rattlesnakes sun themselves on the empty launching pads lining the cape. Small white-tailed deer dart into clearings to feed, and bull alligators bellow in vain for the battalions of space workers who used to feed them marshmallows and jelly doughnuts. On Pad 19, from which Gemini astronauts rose on ten missions to perfect the techniques of rendezvous and docking, the bright orange tower lies useless, flat on its back. The once-gleaming white room where Gemini spacemen...
...space installations is all too obvious: the adventure that riveted the attention of the world for more than ten years is over. NASA'S budget dropped from a peak of $5.9 billion in 1966 to some $3.2 billion this year. Only five of 42 launch pads built at Cape Canaveral are still in use-mainly to launch unmanned communications and exploratory satellites, including...
Diego Garcia's strategic position is evident. Almost equidistant from Indonesia and East Africa, India and Mauritius, the island sits astride the great sea lanes from the Cape of Good Hope to Singapore...