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Apr 4, 2016 · The resulting photographs provide the basis for the publication Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History. Many components of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were repurposed and reused once the missions ended. At Cape Canaveral, Launch Complexes 39A and B were converted for the Space Shuttle Program.
Nov 1, 2000 · Expansion of the Nebula Award–winning story. With the space program all but dead, shuttle astronaut Rick Spencer witnesses the launch from Cape Canaveral of what appears to be an old Saturn V moon rocket. The ghostly spacecraft reaches Moon orbit, then vanishes. When the phantom launch turns into a regular event, NASA blusters, then reluctantly agrees to let Rick try to climb aboard. The ...
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Abandoned in Place breathes new life into old concrete, providing a fresh look even for those who lived or intimately know the glory of Apollo." --David Hitt, coauthor of Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
Apr 5, 2016 · Miller moved to Florida in 1984, and shortly after arriving, he was asked to come out to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to help dispose of some old photo-developing chemicals.
- Finding What Was Lost
- Not Quite Alone, with A Camera
- To Preserve, Or Not
- Inspiring Space
In 1988, I was teaching photography at nearby Brevard Community College, now Eastern Florida State College, when I first visited Launch Complex 19. I was assisting an environmental engineer in properly disposing of some old photographic chemicals on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. When I expressed to him how exciting it was to be on Cape Canavera...
Running around military bases and NASA facilities with a camera to document things is not something the Air Force and NASA are accustomed to allowing. For this type of photography, I knew I would need to work slowly and with a tripod, usually early in the morning, right at sunrise. (If the Atlantic Ocean is calm enough at sunrise, the lighting effe...
It was clear from my first visit that the abandoned steel and concrete structures could not stand up to harsh coastal conditions for very long. Preventing the launch umbilical towers, mobile service structures and other steel structures on active pads from corroding is a challenge. On several occasions, I photographed on Launch Complex 39A's Fixed ...
Re-igniting interest in human space exploration through the physical remains of past glory could be an important catalyst for renewing support for extraorbital exploration. Most of the aerospace engineers, scientists and technicians I meet tell me they were inspired to enter engineering and science fields by the Apollo and space shuttle programs. T...
- Roland Miller
Nov 1, 2000 · On the day that Neil Armstrong passes away, a ghostly Saturn V rocket appears on the abandoned Pad 34, and launches into space, shaking the earth and rattling windows as it goes. It seems real. It shows up on radar.
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Mar 1, 2016 · "Roland Miller is on a mission to document the deserted sites of America's space race."--The Guardian " Abandoned in Place beautifully documents, both in images and words, the architecture and engineering of a period in which anything was possible: the first Space Age."--SpaceFlight "A phenomenal collection of images."--Crave Online
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