Category: Tales from the Rocket Ranch

Enhanced Apollo/Saturn V Center Takes Visitors Back to 1969

Enhanced Apollo/Saturn V Center Takes Visitors Back to 1969

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex captures the excitement of the historic lunar landing in their revamped Apollo/Saturn V Center. This feature will focus on the new exhibits at that facility that includes a 1969 period living room recreating what life was like a half-century ago.

Early Project Mercury Media Event Ends with Astronaut Prank

Early Project Mercury Media Event Ends with Astronaut Prank

In the summer of 1969, the voice of Jack King was immortalized as he provided the countdown for the liftoff for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. He was selected as the first chief of Public Information at the Florida spaceport in 1960. During a news media event just prior to the flight of America’s first person in space, King was witness to a prank by one of NASA’s Project Mercury astronauts.