Author: Alden Pitard

About the Author and Photographer: Alden Pitard has over 40 years experience working in the Aerospace Industry at Cape Canaveral, The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Boeing locations throughout the country. He has supported the Space Shuttle Program, International Space Station, 787 Dreamliner and most recently the Artemis Program. During his time at "The Cape" he photographed a majority of the Launch Sites at KSC and Cape Canaveral. As the Space Shuttle program was coming to a close in 2011, the author decided to bike to all the Launch Complexes he could and capture the Space Center and Cape Canaveral as it was - thus "Biking through Space Ruins".

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Take a trip back one hundred and twenty five years to Cape Canaveral and the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse. This overall ground level view shows two of the resident houses surrounding the Cape Canaveral lighthouse in the early 1900s.  To the …

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Weather in Florida in the summer always brings afternoon thunderstorms and on many occasions they would hit The Cape as I was leaving work. On this particular late May afternoon I was able to escape the office just as the …

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Off to the beaches of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Morning drives on the way to work usually had me detouring out to the beaches of the Air Force Station to see if beach access …

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I would routinely ride my bike to Space Launch Complex 34 to visit the beach and ride up on the Launch Site and pay my respects to the fallen Astronauts of Apollo 1. NASA and the Cape Canaveral Space Force …

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One of my favorite places to visit while working at the Space Center was Space Launch Complex 34 (SLC-34) – Home of the Saturn 1 and Saturn 1B. Originally constructed for a missile named Juno, the name was changed to …

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There are two beach access roads close to the Lighthouse, Camera Pad A and B. I would usually choose one of the access roads for early morning sunrise pictures and both would take me by the lighthouse on the way …

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After leaving the entrance to Launch Complex 14 marked by several memorials and signs commemorating Project Mercury and the four of six crewed Mercury missions launched there the road travels northeast and soon you come into view of the Launch …

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When the cool air starts to arrive in Central Florida it usually sets up a nice foggy morning out on Cape Canaveral. With lots of land and undeveloped areas out on the Cape, the cool air mixing with the warmer …

Throwback Thursday (OK – it’s Friday) to the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse – on a cool foggy November morning back in 2016 Read more »