Cape Canaveral: 1960-1962

[Shasta56]

This is a general plea for help.  Does anyone here know of a project that was supposed to happen in the posted time frame, last two to three months, but was cancelled?  Rather vague, I know, but I was three or four at the time we were there with my dad, and lizards and seashells took a higher prority with me.  My older brother either doesn't know or won't talk.  We are the senior generation of our extended family, so I have nobody to ask.  If I jog any memories or someone knows something, please share.  I'm trying to teach my grankids about where they came from.

Respectfully,

Shasta

[sky otter]

hi shasta

best i could do was find this,,,hope it helps

http://www.spaceline.org/capehistory/3a.html

THE HISTORY OF CAPE CANAVERAL CHAPTER 3
NASA ARRIVES (1959-PRESENT)
Written and Edited by Cliff Lethbridge

[undo11]

i studied the space program years ago, but heck if i remember all the stuff that transpired from one year to the next. i just remember some of the key points, like the names of their space programs (et.al, gemini, mercury, apollo, etc) and little oddities such as alan sheppard golfing on the moon and putting apollo 13 back together with duct tape.

[Amaterasu]

Shasta, I was out in Florida around that time - for 3 months! - with My dad (& mom, and infant sister).  Sadly, all I can recollect is going to see a liftoff of some rocket at the cape and sitting on My dad's shoulders (and the bedbugs in the bed I was given to sleep in initially - LOL).

Really wish I had any info that would help.


EDIT to add:  Oh, and the chameleons.  I too was lizard-fascinated.

[zorgon]

This is a general plea for help.  Does anyone here know of a project that was supposed to happen in the posted time frame, last two to three months, but was cancelled?  Rather vague,

That is a tough one. Those years there were hundreds of projects going on, some made it some failed some where shelved..

Need something  was it rocket related, ground testing, airplanes?  NASA did a lot of stuff other than space in those days like the Mini one man space shuttles

The one below was 1969 in Palmdale but the point is there are a lot of projects





Anybody Need a Lift?

Pilot Bill Dana looks up as the B-52 "mothership" cruises over NASA's HL-10 "lifting body" on Muroc Dry Lake, California, in 1969. Lifting bodies were wingless vehicles that flew because of the lift generated by the aircraft's body. The research proved that future spacecraft could land like an airplane, helping to pave the way for the development of the Space Shuttle.Photo Credit: NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center

[zorgon]

Project Mercury fits your time frame

May 5, 1961 to May 15-16, 1963

[zorgon]

Oh wait  I think I know what your looking for

Project Dyna-Soar LOL  My head still fluffed form all the noise

That was part of the Secret Space Program with the MOL spy station. Most of that is covered in my Naval Space Command thread but PBS NOVA Did a special on it. The Russians had us beat on that two, only their ALMAZ flew until 1972

NOVA ASTROSPIES

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/astrospies.html

[Shasta56]

I was able to nail down at least one date.  We were there when the mice went up on October13, 1960.  I think my problem is not knowing the right questions to ask.  I remember that rockets of some sort were being launched quite frequently.  I don't know if I want to save up my money for hypnotic regression, or for a road trip to FL.  I'm leaning more to the road trip.

Shasta

[Gigas]

Nothing to do with the inquiry.

But....

Back in the dark age of the late 50s my dad bought me a christmas toy called cape canaveral toy set.

It was a large playset with a paper layout of the grounds and lots a rockets and buildings to setup. It included a square flimsy floppy 45 record I could play on our phonograph player with sounds from cape canaveral launches.

I bet that would be worth millions of collector dollars if I had kept it.

[Amaterasu]

I would love to be regressed to gain more detail of what I experienced back during that time!  I wonder if My dad knew Your dad, Shasta.

[spacemaverick]

I was able to nail down at least one date.  We were there when the mice went up on October13, 1960.  I think my problem is not knowing the right questions to ask.  I remember that rockets of some sort were being launched quite frequently.  I don't know if I want to save up my money for hypnotic regression, or for a road trip to FL.  I'm leaning more to the road trip.

Shasta

Shasta, if you could make a trip here to Canaveral I think you might enjoy the history up close and personal.  I moved to Brevard County in 1964 when I was 12, left when I was 19 and have returned.  You can research on-line but going to the space center itself might be a good idea for the up close and personal part of history for you and family.

[spacemaverick]

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=65

This is NASA's media archive.  This same  site gives you a hisotry of the Space Coast as we call it down here.  I will see if I can find anything else for you since I live here.  Someone else on this forum lives near Patrick AFB.  Zorgon could tell tell you who.  I will look for projects and see what I can dig up.

[spacemaverick]

Here is a link right on livingmoon.com from Jack Arneson dealing with the Dyna_Soar Program which was canceled in 1963.  Then there were the Mercury sub-orbital flight until John Glenn circles the earth in actual orbit.

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/SA_Albert_Crews.html

Zorgon's information is always good.


Here is a list of astronauts also that came off a link on livingmoon.com

http://www.spacefacts.de/english/bio_ast.htm

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/DYNASOAR.html

Above link will take you to the Dyna-Soar Program.

[Shasta56]

Just so everyone understands.  The 1950's were the Dark Ages until mid-December 1956.  Then I was born and the light reflecting off my bald head illuminated the world.

Shasta

[Shasta56]

Ok, back to being serious.  Thank you, all of you.  My instincts tell me that there was some involvement with the Mercury project.  I say that, because I remember watching the launch on television not terribly long after we got home.  My mom was really excited because my dad had been some small part of making that happen.  I also know that whatever we were down there for, was supposed to last about three months, but was either cancelled or cut short, so we were only there for about two weeks.  I alsoremember playing in the ocean with a couple of other girls who were close to my age, and whose father was also down there on a work assignment.

Shasta