Easter Sunday morning I drove the 80 km back to the Kennedy Space Center, pausing at 6:30 am on the causeway across the Indian River to take some atmospheric dawn photos across the calm water towards the 160 metre tall Vehicle Assembly Building. The attraction today was to be the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure that had surrounded and protected the Discovery since its arrival at the pad some weeks before.
On the way I paused to take in the dawn beauty of the Indian River.
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| On the causeway across the Indian River. |
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| Outside the Space Center's Badging office there is a Redstone Rocket with a Mercury capsule. |
Another pause was made at the Badging Office to admire a piece of space history. This was a Redstone rocket of the type that, in 1961, launched Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on suborbital Mercury spaceflights.
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