Mercury Monument

The starting point to the Space Walk of Fame.

The symbol for the Mercury man in space programme.

Continuing my river bank drive north through Titusville, I came across the Mercury Monument and Park, which is part of the Space Walk of Fame Museum. This has a pedestrian avenue with plaques celebrating the Mercury astronauts.

I also got into conversation with some veterans who had suffered injuries in the 1991 Gulf War, and who were still awaiting treatment. This got us into a discussion of the American verses the Australian health care systems, which was a hot political issue at that very moment, with President Obama struggling at that very moment to get his health care reforms through Congress.

The Mercury walk of fame.

Alan Shepard's hand prints. Alan was the first American in space. He later went on the fly Apollo 14 to the Moon, the third manned landing there.

Plaques set in the pavement along the walk commemorate each mission. In this case it is Alan Shepard's Mercury 3 suborbital mission.

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