Stormy Day and Rough Seas at the Cape – View from Launch Complex 46 – Biking through Space Ruins
Some pictures from atop Launch Complex 46 – soon to be the site of the Orion Assent-Abort 2 (AA-2) test flight.
Modifications to the launch complex are in work for the Pad Abort Test of the Launch Abort System (LAS) of Orion scheduled in 2018.
Launch Complex 46 was originally constructed by the U.S. Navy in 1985 to support land-based testing of the Trident submarine launched ballistic missile.
There will be more on LC-46 in a future post.
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".