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We spent all day at the complex. We started off at one of the first launch complexes(cant remember the number or name) but I think the Gemini program started at it. It was a really cool old bunker with the old computer system still in it.
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This was the Mercury launch control center you were looking at. Really looks downright primitive. I wouldn't want to risk my life based on readings from that junk...but that's what they had in the early 60's. Talk about the right stuff- you needed it then....
My dad worked for GE in Daytona on the Apollo program in the 60s. I can remember a visit to KSC for some event in the 60s when we got to go into the VAB. Later, I got to view the Apollo-Soyuz launch up close...cool.
Rick